It Philosophy Quotes

I know that there is a force in the world and an energy that you can put out, and when you put out love it comes back to you. I think that's my basic philosophy.

Only by examining our personal biases can we truly grow as artists; only by cultivating empathy can we truly grow as people.

It's not so unusual to run out of someone else's currency.

What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn't any philosophy in crises, others make the decision.

The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.

Religion is life, philosophy is thought; religion looks up, friendship looks in. We need both thought and life, and we need that the two shall be in harmony.

In philosophy, you have to reckon with the implicit level of an accumulated reserve, and thus with a very great number of relays, with the shared responsibility of these relays.

There is a bizarre notion according to which it is claimed that because men are corrupt, it is necessary to give certain of them all the more power... on the contrary, they must be given less power.

Learning philosophy is learning a particular kind of intuitive understanding.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

She - philosophy is equally helpful to the rich and poor: neglect her, and she equally harms the young and old.

The finding of arguments for a conclusion given in advance is not philosophy, but special pleading

Superficially, it might be said that the function of the kidneys is to make urine; but in a more considered view one can say that the kidneys make the stuff of philosophy itself.

The laying of fish on the embers, the taste of the fish, the feel of the texture of bread, the round and the half-loaf, the grain of a petal, the rain-bow and the rain.

I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.

Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.

We really are All One....this is the very philosophy that has kept me virtually anonymous in America for fifteen years.

In my opinion a mathematician, in so far as he is a mathematician, need not preoccupy himself with philosophy-an opinion, moreover, which has been expressed by many philosophers.

The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life. If it be true that optimism compels the world forward, and pessimism retards it, then it is dangerous to propagate a pessimistic philosophy.

He seems the incarnation of everything soft and silky and velvety, without a sharp edge in his composition, a dreamer whose philosophy is sleep and let sleep.

My philosophy of life is that the meek shall inherit nothing but debasement, frustration, and ignoble deaths.

Philosophy is regarded by many as inseparable from speculation. ... Philosophy has proceeded from speculation to science.

Every thought is an afterthought.

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

Logic is in the eye of the logician.

Either philosophy reinforces communal beliefs, in which case it is pointless; or else it is at odds with those beliefs, in which case it is dangerous.

Knowledge of our duties is the most essential part of the philosophy of life. If you escape duty you avoid action. The world demands results.

It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.

I am too good for philosophy and not good enough for physics. Mathematics is in between.

In my opinion nothing has contributed more to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist country.

We categorize as we do because we have the brains and bodies we have and because we interact in the world as we do.

If you want to find the answers to the Big Questions about your soul, you'd best begin with the Little Answers about your body.

Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.

Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies.

Life's gonna run you over if you don't get goin.

What has philosophy got to do with measuring anything? It's the mathematicians you have to trust, and they measure the skies like we measure a field.

[...] to introduce into the philosophy of war itself a principle of moderation would be an absurdity

Life is a maze of doors and they all open from the side you're on. Just keep on pushing hard boy, try as you may, you're going to wind up where you started from.

I just want to be healthy and happy. I don't want to hurt anybody or make them mad. If that's a philosophy then that's my philosophy.

Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.

Philosophy is a goddess, whose head indeed is in heaven, but whose feet are upon earth; she attempts more than she accomplishes, and promises more than she performs.

The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.

In tantra, samsara is viewed as the same thing as nirvana. Eating a hamburger is meditation.

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

No problem is so big and difficult that it can't be blamed on somebody else.

Success, failure, pain, small furry animals, household products, freeways, Star Wars systems - all are interlinked in the dance of tantra, the disco of the mind, the ballroom of cosmic consciousness.

I mean, we are tribal by nature, and sometimes success and material wealth can divide and separate - it's not a new philosophy I'm sharing - more than hardship, hardship tends to unify.

In my reading of philosophy, I saw that there were innumerable problems that nobody was giving answers for. the Bible, it struck me, dealt with man's problems in a sweeping, all-encompassing thrust.

Your'e seeing me develop, not only as a filmmaker if you've seen my earlier films, but you're seeing me kind of learn how to be a human, how my philosophy has evolved.

Meditation is a gift confined to unknown philosophers and cows. Others don't begin to think till they begin to talk or write.