It Philosophy Quotes

Philosophy as well as foppery often changes fashion.

You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!

We [he and Halmos] share a philosophy about linear algebra: we think basis-free, we write basis-free , but when the chips are down we close the office door and compute with matrices like fury.

A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy's guts, he comes.

The point of civilization is to be civilized; the purpose of action is to perpetuate society, for only in society can philosophy truly take place.

The best philosophy is to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot; bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it.

Young people are thoughtless as a rule.

This is my philosophy: I prefer to stay out of the public eye. I love freedom.

I don't think there is any philosophy that suggests having polio is a good thing.

Microsoft's philosophy is to 'do things better.' And Vista has given us lots of opportunity to do that.

[P]hilosophy . . .consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

I've got this crazy dream of stripping down to truth and bone.

St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to attain the Divine. That is why all pre-Christian philosophy is theological at its summit.

Philosophy first constructs a scheme of happiness and then tries to fit the world to it.

Philosophy, as the modern world knows it, is only intellectual club-swinging.

The tree of life is growing where the spirit never dies, and the bright light of salvation shines in dark and empty skies.

Why not me? Suffering, she understood, is, in fact, random, universal.

How can you qualify the difference between a sin and a lie.

He wants his home and security, he wants to live like a sailor at sea.

Philosophy finds itself to be no longer anything but the heir to a fabulous mystical theology, but missing a God and wiping the slate clean.

At the heart of the Irish economy has always been the philosophy of tax competitiveness. On the cranky left, that is very annoying; I can see that.

Philosophers are as jealous as women; each wants a monopoly of praise.

Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.

There are three traps that strangle philosophy: The church, the marriage bed, and the professor's chair.

I would not say that I was, these days, a 'student' of philosophy, although in my youth I was quite deeply involved with certain aspects of the British pragmatists.

Induction is the glory of science and the scandal of philosophy.

My philosophy has always been it's good to learn everything.

In my writing with Extreme, there are heavy themes. The cover photo has me with a gun to my neck. I am not advocating suicide. I am taking the philosophy that man is the measure of his own fate.

Heaven's not beyond the clouds, it's just beyond the fear. No, heaven's not beyond the clouds, it's just for us to find it here.

All paths lead nowhere, so it is important to choose a path that has heart.

The Greeks, with their truly healthy culture, have once and for all justified philosophy simply by having engaged in it, and having engaged in it more fully than any other people.

Repression is the only lasting philosophy. The dark deference of fear and slavery, my friend, will keep the dogs obedient to the whip, as long as this roof shuts out the sky.

Hope founded upon a human being, a man-made philosophy or any institution is always misplaced... because these things are unreliable and fleeting.

Hermès and my own brand share the same philosophy, the same vision of women, but the two aren't identical.

I adhere to the philosophy, "I don't care who writes the laws, let me write the songs."

My philosophy in life... is to prove myself to myself and not to others. I tried to teach my children that, that I have to respect myself, to prove to myself that I can do the best I can.

I would want to conceive of philosophy as grounded in the very long humanist tradition that is the best of the West, which is open to the East and North and South.

One road was simple acceptance of life, the other road offered sweet peace. When I made my decision, my vision became my release.

Are you under the power of gold?

I've always had philosophy, which has been really helpful for me, getting into the business. I didn't have any connections. I didn't know anyone. It was just about my work.

Empiricism in the sciences is a method; naturalism in philosophy is a metaphysics; and the latter neither follows from nor underlies the former.

There's something about the style of living in the country that they feel, "This is what represents me." So style is about the philosophy of how we create our civilization.

It is certain that the easy and obvious philosophy will always, with the generality of mankind, have preference above the accurate.

The stability of modern governments above the ancient, and the accuracy of modern philosophy, have improved, and probably will still improve, by similar gradations.

The observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours to elude or avoid it.

We all more or less consciously note this. We cannot help observing that all serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.

Let no young man delay the study of philosophy, and let no old man become weary of it; for it is never too early nor too late to care for the well-being of the soul.

As long as one believes in philosophy, one is healthy; sickness begins when one starts to think.

The more one is absorbed in so-called philosophy, the greater one's delusion and blindness.

My philosophy is simple: It's a down-home, common, horse-sense approach to things.