It Philosophy Quotes

I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don't even need or want to look 'intelligent' anymore.

A prison becomes a home when you have the key.

Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.

The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.

Distraction serves evil more than any other mental state.

Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.

We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.

For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.

Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.

Life's managed, not cured.

The only value of wasted time is knowledge.

When faith in our freedom gives way to fear of our freedom, silencing the minority view becomes the operative protocol.

What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance.

Few things are more deceptive than memories.

We are often taught to look for the beauty in all things, so in finding it, the layman asks the philosopher while the philosopher asks the photographer.

The best things in life are crazy.

Don't think, but look! (PI 66)

Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things.

Your Philosophy of life shapes you more than anything else

Prejudice for regularity and simplicity is a source of error that has only too often infected philosophy.

The American Revolution was, in fact, a battle against the philosophy of Locke and the English utilitarians.

[The current governing judicial philosophy is:] If you want something passionately enough, it is guaranteed by the Constitution. No need to fiddle around gathering votes from recalcitrant citizens.

Standing in the middle of nowhere, wondering how to begin. Lost between tomorrow and yesterday, between now and then.

A mind might ponder its thought for an epoch, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach in a day.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

I have always done what I love myself. My philosophy was that I never had focus groups. I did what I wear.

My philosophy is if you're happy being a born - again Christian, if you're happy be­ing a Roman Catholic, if you're happy being a Jew or Moslem ... great!! I'm happy being Ozzy.

Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow on another like the withered leaves of Autumn.

I don't want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning.

Let your soul lead the way, cause I'm that enemy that you can't see.

Philosophy is the art of living.

It is a proof of philosophical mediocrity, today, to look for a philosophy.

All Philosophy is Biography

With no guilt and no shame, no sorrow or blame. Whatever it is, we are all the same.

One of the tragedies of the Bush administration is that we went back to business as usual, make a deal with the Democrats, lets all be friends in Washington philosophy.

The promise of business is to increase the general well-being of humankind through service, a creative invention and ethical philosophy.

People think the free market is a philosophy, they think that it is a creed. It is none of those things. Free market is a bathroom scale, it is a measuring tape, it's simply a measurement.

Esoteric philosophy teaches that the physical form, the body, of the individual is made new at birth; but the soul is ancient, the stuff of stars.

What we cannot express by the art of thinking, by the art of science or philosophy or logic, we can and should express by the poetic, visual, or some other arts.

Have I been wrong? Have I been wise to shut my eyes?

Life is sweet, life is also very short.

Good Governance cannot remain merely a philosophy. Concrete steps have to be taken for realizing its goals.

Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age.

Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance.

Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols.

The heart of the liberal philosophy is a belief in the dignity of the individual, in his freedom to make the most of his capacities and opportunities according to his own lights.

I was drifting away like a drop in the ocean, and now I realize that nothing has been as beautiful as when I saw heaven's skies.

I see philosophy as a fairly abstract activity, as concerned mainly with the analysis of criticism and concepts, and of course most usefully of scientific concepts.

I like to cook with the philosophy of using great ingredients and not altering them too much.

The most important principle of divine philosophy is the oneness of the world of humanity, the unity of mankind, the bond conjoining East and West, the tie of love which blends human hearts.