It Philosophy Quotes

Materialist philosophies that treat human beings as machines or animals possess the high ground in our culture - academia, the most powerful media and many of our courts.

Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms... For example, I am made up of 5.8x10^27 atoms.

I majored in Chinese. I was never really good at Chinese but I really, really benefited from having been exposed to Asian philosophy early in my life.

I do not want Michael Angelo for breakfast-but for luncheon-for dinner- for tea-for supper-for between meals.

The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes, or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.

A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.

Original philosophy is always "deviant" or even subversive.

I have come finally to a simple philosophy of work. I enjoy what I do and do the best I can. That is enough.

Philosophy is true mother of the arts [of science].

The low view of God entertained almost universally among Christians is the cause of a hundred lesser evils everywhere among us.

I don't discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I'm not interested in philosophy classes.

I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy.

In my view, only those who have had the courage to work through Lacan's anti-philosophy without faltering deserve to be called 'contemporary philosophers'.

Philosophy had supplied Socrates with convictions in which he had been able to have rational, as opposed to hysterical, confidence when faced with disapproval.

In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer's words, to turn pain into knowledge.

Cosmic systems intertwine, astral bodies drip like wine, all of nature ebbs and flows. Comets shoot across the sky, can't explain the reasons why, this is how creation goes.

I ran to the forest, I ran to the trees. I ran and I ran, I was looking for me.

It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means.

It is absolutely the central theme in my design philosophy - that life is erotic, period. The female body is one of the most extraordinary designs ever done in this universe.

I consider myself a 3-D philosopher. I am not a designer at all. I studied aerodynamics, I studied philosophy, I studied sculpture. High technology on one side, and on the other side, art.

Philosophy limits the thinkable and therefore the unthinkable.

It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.

Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.

Philosophy may in no way interfere with the actual use of language; it can in the end only describe it.

Philosophy unravels the knots in our thinking; hence its results must be simple, but its activity is as complicated as the knots that it unravels.

The philosophy commonly called individualism is a philosophy of social cooperation and the progressive intensification of the social nexus.

When I open my eyes I must sigh, for what I see is contrary to my religion, and I must despise the world which does not know that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.

Mere unbelief in a personal God is no philosophy at all.

Not to care for philosophy is to be a true philospher.

The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic.

If the people are led to believe that scarce resources are best channeled in a direction that producers and consumers would not choose on their own, the result must necessarily be central planning.

Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy.

Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.

Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.

Much of coaching consists of teaching and communicating ideas, concepts and philosophies to the players and my education helped make me a much more effective coach.

But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.

The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the 19th century.

Before I joined the project most of the English people with whom I had made personal contacts were left wing and affected to some degree or other by the same kind of philosophy.

I was ready to accept the philosophy that the Party is right and that in the coming struggle you could not permit yourself any doubts after the party had made a decision.

REALITY, n. The dream of a mad philosopher. That which would remain in the cupel if one should assay a phantom. The nucleus of a vacuum.

Our offensive philosophy is to simply find a way to get the ball into the hands of our team's best player.

The cheap but simple human emotion of envy is the driving force of all socialism, of all anti-capitalist philosophy. It is the mark of the intellectual.

Abortion does not compute with my philosophy.

Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem.

I'm the color me happy girl, Miss live and let live. And when they're out for blood, I always give.

Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords-philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.

My philosophy is whatever you do, you've got to invest in yourself. If you don't, there are a lot of people out there who will get the job because they're more prepared than you.

The bureaucracy is a circle from which no one can escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge.