It Philosophy Quotes

In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance, the last is the parent of adoration.

The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.

The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.

The word " philosophy " carries unfortunate connotations: impractical, unworldly, weird.

I think that when people are at their best, when they are thinking, reflecting, cogitating, then they are doing philosophy. So I don't see philosophy as an academic enterprise.

Philosophy, for me, is a way of relearning to look at the world, a world that is familiar to us, that we know, that is shared by all human beings and also by nonhuman beings.

What we philosophers can do is just correct the questions.

Unfortunately, I'm not a person that's always capable of living up to the Boy Scout philosophy.

Religion deals in certainties and philosophy deals more in un-answered questions.

If you're studying Geology, which is all facts, as soon as you get out of school you forget it all, but Philosophy you remember just enough to screw you up for the rest of your life.

Every ripple on the ocean, every leaf on every tree, every sand dune in the desert, every power we never see.

I've spent too many years at war with myself, the doctor has told me it's not good for my health.

When I read philosophy or neuroscience papers about consciousness, I don't get the sense we're any closer to understanding it than we were 50 years ago.

A philosophy is characterized more by the formulation of its problem than by its solution of them.

I've always said fantasy is sort of 'stealth philosophy'.

A philosopher being asked what was the first thing necessary to win the love of a woman, answered, Opportunity!

In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was made for man.

To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere Philosophy.

Before philosophy can teach by Experience, the Philosophy has to be in readiness, the Experience must be gathered and intelligibly recorded.

O Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry each a future Ghost within him; but are, in very deed, Ghosts!

Man [is] a rational animal, endowed by nature with rights and with an innate sense of justice.

I, place economy among the first & most important republican virtues, & public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared

These precious things, let them bleed.

Darwinism as presented by Darwin contradicted idealistic philosophy, and this contradiction grew deeper with the development of its materialist teaching.

We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance, we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned.

As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main features of the human language is the possibility of lying.

I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity.

True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.

Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses

All the arts are brothers; each one is a light to the others.

It has been said that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct.

The surplus of society overrides all our traditions and shapes all our philosophies.

You can’t change the mind with the mind alone, or we’d all be enlightened

Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life; it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty.

Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labour of its unfamiliar thought.

Philosophy is reason with the eyes of the soul.

We are so curiously made that one atom put in the wrong place in our original structure will often make us unhappy for life.

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.

Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is 'ten times nature'.

And now it seems she's on my wavelength. That's all I need. My mind isn't much of a comfort to me but at least I thought it was private.

The myth that the founding of American Republic was based on the philosophy of John Locke could only have been maintained, because the history of Leibniz's influence was suppressed.

Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal.

It is, from another angle, an attack on requiring proof in philosophy. And it's also the case, I guess, that my temperament is to like interesting, new, bold ideas, and to try and generate them.

An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.

Think small.... If you can't think small, try philosophy or social criticism.

There is almost no evidence that diagnoses such as 'schizophrenia' and 'bipolar disorder' correspond to discrete entities ('natural kinds' in the language of philosophy).

We believe that when the right talent meets the right opportunity in a company with the right philosophy, amazing transformation can happen.

Compared to the bugs and the spiders and flies, I am an apeman.

There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man's life than in all the philosophies.