It Philosophy Quotes
But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
Let those who want to save the world if you can get to see it clear and as a whole. Then any part you make will represent the whole if it's made truly. The thing to do is work and learn to make it.
The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.
Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.
For axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses.
But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.
Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it.
We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.
It takes billions of years to create a human being. And it takes only a few seconds to die.
Morality is always derivative. It stems from one's worldview.
Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
I just know that I don't want cheating. I refuse. I deepened myself but I don't believe in myself because my thought is invented.
The best way for you to get that new experience is to change your response to what happens.
What is forgotten, however, is that many times the Good we create leads to Evil that will destroy us.
You are not alone in your quest to be who you want and have what you want.
My life will have been a succession of lives, as if I have had several lives, a multiplicity of stories and roles. I have not ceased to have changes of life.
Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of God.
What determines each person's state of happiness or unhappiness is not the event itself, but what the event means to that person.
And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right.
Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
The most fertile soil does not necessarily produce the most abundant harvest. It is the use we make of our faculties which renders them valuable.
Refer me to one atheist who denies the existence of God.... Etymologically, as well as philosophically, an atheist is one without God. That is all the 'A' before 'Theist' really means.
You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.
Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
There is both joy and suffering on planet Earth because this beautiful world is a world of duality - a world of opposites. There is an opposite side to everything.
It is my intent to beget a good understanding between the chymists and the mechanical philosophers who have hitherto been too little acquainted with one another's learning.
Beyond all vanities, fights, and desires, omnipotent silence lies.
Is it possible to write a poem or are these words just screams of outlaws exiled to the desert?
We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit.
If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there's nothing here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more?
The events that occur in my life are workout situations. They are there for my benefit so I can become strong and gain wisdom and information by working my way through those situations.
The whole world is beautiful, Belgarion' Eriond assured him in response to that unspoken thought. 'You just have to know how to look at it
We’re beings toward death, we’re … two-legged, linguistically-conscious creatures born between urine and feces whose body will one day be the culinary delight of terrestrial worms.