It Philosophy Quotes

Let us first of all frugality in government-peace and freedom we will have as a bonus.

I can't save them by myself, oh but God forbid that I just turn my head and walk on by. Don't let me be a stranger to those less fortunate than I.

Popular atheism is not a philosophy but a therapy.

Goods move in response to price differences from points of low to points of higher price, the movement tending to obliterate the price difference and come to rest.

Philosophy may raise us above grandeur, but nothing can elevate us above the ennui which accompanies it.

The height of all philosophy is to know thyself; and the end of this knowledge is to know God.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

Let me know the way, before there's hell to pay.

The chief benefit, which results from philosophy, arises in an indirect manner, and proceeds more from its secret, insensible influence, than from its immediate application.

Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.

You know, the whole philosophy of ad hoc combinations has its strengths and its weaknesses.

Scepticism is the first step toward truth.

Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.

Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.

Do you know what an unwanted bodily condition is? It's a freshly hatched energy-summoning life-giving desire!

We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.

I've had two children. I've had three boyfriends. I've had a lot of things happen that can change your opinions and values and philosophies.

If you look at history you'll find that no state has been so plagued by its rulers as when power has fallen into the hands of some dabbler in philosophy or literary addict.

Who you are isn't tied solely to what you say, even though it may feel that way to you now.

I have a friend who lives by a three-word philosophy: Seize the Moment. Just possibly, she may be the wisest woman on this planet.

( ...philosophy is more often the systematization of the prejudices of philosophers than the systematization of nature.) Distrust all generalizations: stick to the concrete.

Death is nothing to us: for that which is dissolved is without sensation; and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us.

I believe in the Democratic party, and their philosophy and what they stand for - for the poor people.

Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.

Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure.

The problem with emotion was that it was clearly something important, but-at least according to the old philosophy-it was something to overcome.

Am I an Apple bigot? No. I can critique their products and their customer service philosophy. But overall, they do better than any other player.

Philosophy, while it soothes the reason, damps the ambition.

Education is not a discipline at all. Half vocational, half emptiness dressed up in garments borrowed from philosophy, psychology, literature.

Nothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science.

The whole point of view of the anarchist is that everything must start from the bottom up, from man. It seems to me so human a philosophy.

Philosophy is talk on a cereal box.

Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself.

I think, therefore I'll think.

Show me that I m everywhere and get me home for tea.

Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.-

A moment or an eternity—did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist.

Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love.

Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.

Time is just quantified eternity.

Sound unbound by nature becomes bounded by art.

Sometimes we have to soak ourselves in the tears and fears of the past to water our future gardens.

Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.

When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed.

I am my world.

Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet.

When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies

The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly.

In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it's all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean.

To live entirely without a goal! I have glimpsed this state, and have often attained it, without managing to remain there: I am too weak for such happiness.