It Philosophy Quotes
In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness.
If you don't want anyone to know about your existence, you might as well kill yourself. You're taking up space, air.
I know that the molecules in my body are traceable to phenomena in the cosmos. That makes me want to grab people on the street and say: ‘Have you HEARD THIS?
I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa
As long as we are children, we have the ability to experience things around us--but then we grow used to the world. To grow up is to get drunk on sensory experience.
I used to think I knew what was right and what was wrong, and who the good guys are, and who the bad guys are. Then the world got very gray, and I didn't know anything for a long time
There is your truth and there is my truth. As for the universal truth, it does not exist.
I’m not superstitious. I’m a witch. Witches aren’t superstitious. We are what people are superstitious of.
They can't tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed.
We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends towards guesswork.
My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has to offer.
I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
The free mind, unafraid of labor, presses on to attain the good.
Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know.
If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.
A writer is one who communicates ideas and emotions people want to communicate but aren't quite sure how, or even if, they should communicate them.
A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallow mind that his work is probably not worth reading.
From whichever side I start, I think I am in an old place where others have been before me.
In the end, it is our defiance that redeems us. If wolves had a religion – if there was a religion of the wolf – that it is what it would tell us.
The logical man must either deny all miracles or none.
By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice the manufacturer's icon on top: an apple with a bite out of it.
Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.
The sole philosophy open to those who doubt the possibility of truth is absolute silence -- even mental.
The best reaction to a paradox is to invent a genuinely new and deep idea.
Art is the social antithesis of society, not directly deducible from it.
I don’t want to accidentally end up looking back on my life to find that I’m ashamed of myself, I want to live a life I can be proud of.
A man must not be without shame, for the shame of being without shame is shamelessness indeed.
I only seem negative to the fortunate. That's because I show the less fortunate that they aren't less fortunate after all.
The church has never been asked to explain anything, our speciality, along with ballistics, has always been the neutralisation of the overly curious mind through faith.
Though all men be equally frail before the world, the differences between them are terrifying.
Science, philosophy and religion are bound to converge as they draw nearer to the whole.
Steve Jobs is someone I've studied inside and out, and I've applied so many of his techniques and philosophies to my businesses. It's a remote mentorship because I've never met him.
The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.
