It Philosophy Quotes

The Darwinian concept of the survival of the fittest has been substituted by a philosophy of the survival of the slickest.

The ultimate triumph of philosophy would be to cast light upon the mysterious ways in which Providence moves to achieve the designs it has for man.

Laughter without a tinge of philosophy is but a sneeze of humor. Genuine humor is replete with wisdom.

Any materialist philosophy must take as its point of departure the existence of a material world that is independent of our minds.

It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.

Be the change that you want to see

Don't try to lose weight. Take delight in gaining fitness.

I do not have much liking for the too famous existential philosophy, and, to tell the truth, I think its conclusions false.

There is always a philosophy for lack of courage.

Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. A philosophical work consists essentially of elucidations.

A good guide will take you through the more important streets more often than he takes you down side streets; a bad guide will do the opposite. In philosophy I'm a rather bad guide.

Philosophy just puts everything before us, and neither explains nor deduces anything.-Since everything lies open to view there is nothing to explain

When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.

The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know.

The aim of the popularization of economic studies is not to make every man an economist. The idea is to equip the citizen for his civic functions in community life.

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.

Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers.

I do not imply that this philosophy of land was always clear to me. It is rather the end result of a life journey.

I lost my power in the world because I did not use it.

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

Different ‘philosophies’ represent nothing but methods of evaluation, which may lead to empirical mis-evaluation if science and empirical facts are disregarded.

Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.

He who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his song-bird in a cage.

Hold fast, therefore, O circular philosopher, to thy centre, and drive the globe along its orbit by the momentum of thy thought.

I'm alright, nobody worry about me. Why you gotta gimme a fight? Can't you just let it be.

Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.

Zen is not, in my view, philosophy or mysticism. It is simply a practice of readjustment of nervous activity. That is, it restores the distorted nervous system to its normal functioning.

About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.

Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal.

Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.

The Zen philosophy posits that 'human beings suffer' and 'the cause of suffering is desire.' The way to put an end to suffering is to stop wanting everything, all the time.

My whole philosophy is working smarter and not harder. And making sure I'm using little effort and getting a huge effect.

Nothing seems to me more doubtful than Aristotle's remark that it is probable the arts and philosophy have several times been discovered and several times lost.

Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact amount is no use to me.

The crimes of extreme civilization are certainly more atrocious than those of extreme barbarism.

When I break any of the chains that bind me I feel that I make myself smaller.

In everything, it is no easy task to find the middle.

I'm in love with a philosophy major, and she doesn't even know I exist. And what's worse, she can prove it.

And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it.

The new religion without any secrets is philosophy. The old religion, said Aristotle, is necessary only for the uneducated; Confucius, Buddha, Voltaire and Lessing were of the same opinion.

In theology we must consider the predominance of authority; in philosophy the predominance of reason.

I see the beard and cloak, but I don't yet see a philosopher. -Video barbam et pallium; philosophum nondum video

Don't ever wish you were someone else, you were meant to be the way you are exactly.

There is no philosophy that will help us to succeed if we doubt our ability to do so.

What if life is just a cosmic joke, like spiders in your underwear.

Aesthetics is both politics and philosophy, a series of agreements and disagreements between subjective minds.

It is our philosophical set of the sail that determines the course of our lives. To change our current Direction, we have to change our philosophy, not our circumstances.

All life is a movement in relationship. There is no living thing on earth which is not related to something or other.

All work is an act of philosophy.

Yoga is an art, a science and a philosophy. It touches the life of man at every level, physical, mental, and spiritual. It is a practical method for making one's life purposeful, useful and noble.