It Philosophy Quotes

Philosophy studies the world, but the point is to change it.

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

It was a great thing to be a human being. It was something tremendous. Suddenly I'm conscious of a million sensations buzzing in me like bees in a hive. Gentlemen, it was a great thing.

The business of philosophy is to circumnavigate human nature.

I am inspired by many mediums and use them to express varied aspects of my philosophies and life observations.

Philosophy appears to concern itself only with the truth, but perhaps expresses only fantasies, while literature appears to concern itself only with fantasies, but perhaps it expresses the truth.

Philosophy is the opposite of fairy tales

Let animals live like animals; let humans live like humans. That's my whole philosophy in a sentence.

There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.

Such a man, truly wise, creams off Nature leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up.

I'd like to do policy and I'd like to do philosophy, I'd like to be able to get into the depth, into the meat of the argument - that's the kind of stuff I want to do.

Books bear him up a while, and make him try to swim with bladders of philosophy.

The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be booted out; not any particular manifestation of that principle.

Every powerful movement has had its philosophy which has gripped the mind, fired the imagination and captured the devotion of its adherents.

Philosophy is nothing but discretion.

Microsoft's philosophy is to get it out there and fix it later. Steve [Jobs] would never do that. He doesn't get anything out there until it is perfected.

The fork is the most powerful tool ever placed in our hands.

The old philosophy was that parents, especially mothers, caused their kids to become schizophrenic. Now we see that when a kid is this crazy, he'll make the family begin to seem crazy.

Management philosophy: Pay attention to the vital fiew and ignore the trivial many. I could go insane if I obsessed over every little details of all my companies.

Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy.

But also philosophy is not about perceptible substances they, you see, are prone to destruction.

There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: We know her woof, her texture; she is given In the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.

People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this; that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will not do it.

The violence had broken out in both sides, but our philosophy as a party was very, very clear.

The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.

Some experiences are mis-educative. Any experience is mis-educative that has the effect of arresting or distorting the growth of further experience.

A man becomes a philosopher by reason of a certain perplexity, from which he seeks to free himself.

And if no Lethe flows beneath your casement, And when ten years have not brought full effacement, Philosophy was wrong, and you may meet.

Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers.

One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.

History is a pageant and not a philosophy.

Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week.

Philosophy cannot raise the commonalty up to her level: so, if she is to become popular, she must sink to theirs.

Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake.

The thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomenon.

All our knowledge is symbolic.

I just learned my lyrics and tried not to bump into the trumpet player. That was my philosophy.

If your corn has a herbicide-tolerant gene, it means you can pray your herbicides and kill the weeds; you won't kill your corn.

The philosophy I always have is what's the sentence that would tell me about each shot. If I can't read why the shot's there, what is the story trying to say?

America's government is not even aware of the gap between its commitments and action, because almost nobody in authority understands the actions that would be needed to meet the commitments.

So many differing opinions and philosophies... are rarely housed under the roof of a single magazine.

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.

You need at least six or seven years to understand the philosophy and concentration of karate to know to clean your spirit of everything and dedicate your mind and body to the sport.

Art is science in the flesh.

Must be grounded in a philosophy whose foundation is on the solidarity of the human race, a philosophy which will not waver when the race happens to be represented by a drunken woman or an idiot boy.

Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.

Philosophy which asserts that human experience repeats itself is ineffectual.

In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language governed it.

Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.

It is precisely in knowing its limits that philosophy consists.