It Philosophy Quotes

So much time weeping and wailing and shaking our fists, creating enemies that really don't exist.

Every pulse of your heartbeat is one liquid moment that flows through the veins of your being. Like a river of life flowing on since creation, approaching the sea with each new generation.

Philosophy became a gloomy science, in the labyrinth of which people vainly tried to find the exit, called The Truth.

My philosophy is to always find the smartest people you can. Hire people smarter than you.

Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.

One novel in five hundred or a thousand has the quality a novel should have to make it a novel -- the quality of philosophy.

Philosophy may be dodged, eloquence cannot.

Your woodlot is, in fact, an historical document which faithfully records your personal philosophy.

The Reservoir plan is an engineering mechanism applied to the field of economics, and in its essence it has nothing to do with democracy or any other political philosophy.

The legacy of Greece to Western philosophy is Western philosophy.

It's living - a broad spectrum of living - that teaches you how to live, not philosophy. Philosophy teaches you how to think.

I love history, cultural and religious studies, philosophy, photography and traveling.

Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise.

There should be a harmonious blend of religion, philosophy and art for man to live healthily in the world.

There have always been people during periods of history that thought that we could get along with the enemy if only we would reach out. Peace in our time is a philosophy.

I lived in the world of poetry and ideas. I thought life was all about art and philosophy. In the military, I suddenly found out about the real world.

I have a face I cannot show, I make the rules up as I go.

Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.

Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.

What selfish seeds I plant along the way, black harvest today.

The compass spins between heaven and hell, let your soul be your pilot, let your soul guide you.

The continual pursuit of meanings-wider, clearer, more negotiable, more articulate meanings- is philosophy.

One of the main reasons for the existence of philosophy is not that it enables you to find truth (it can never do that) but that it does provide you a refuge for definitions.

The philosophy of jazz represents tolerance, teamwork and inclusion. That's what America is about. The music reflects that.

You can't explain the unknown in terms of the incomprehensible.

Wonder was the motive that led people to philosophy ... wonder is a kind of desire in knowledge. It is the cause of delight because it carries with it the hope of discovery.

Being a victim is more palatable than having to recognize the intrinsic contradictions of one's own governing philosophy.

Angels and Airwaves is a complete, pure reflection of who I am. The philosophy, the spiritualism, the esotericism, the idea of hope and space and the themes about life and grandeur that's all me.

It is of note that for a long time moral nihilism was a kind of unquestioned default position in analytic moral philosophy.

If nobody loved, the sun would go out.

All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word 'no.' To 'no' there is only one answer and that is 'yes.

Listen to others' advice and deliberate yourself. Only fools acts thoughtlessly, without consideration!

If God did not exist, he would have to be invented.

None but blockheads copy each other.

We're all in this together is a far better philosophy than you're on your own.

If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.

To know just what has do be done, then to do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.

Philosophy means thinking things out for oneself. Ultimately, there can be only one true philosophy, since reason is one and we all live in the same world.

The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.

The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive.

Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds.

When the heart is dry the eye is dry.

There are no bad words. Bad thoughts. Bad intentions, and wooooords.

What does it matter where my body happens to be?' he said. 'My mind goes on working all the same.

But this wealth of information produced little or no insight.

To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent to which he is irrational, the premise directing his actions is death.

A house is a compressed territory where our basic needs can be fulfilled close by and safely.

You're too young to decide to live forever.

Hey, if it's a good philosophy, it works. Death is imminent. Live every day like it's your last.