It Philosophy Quotes

Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false.

Theology sits rouged at the window and courts philosophy's favor, offering to sell her charms to it.

The progress of mankind is due exclusively to the progress of natural sciences, not to morals, religion or philosophy.

History. Language. Passion. Custom. All these things determine what men say, think, and do. These are the hidden puppet-strings from which all men hang.

Nature creates unity even in the parts of a whole.

To connect is to dissolve the imaginary pyramids of artificial privilege.

Book sense makes sense because someone has gone through it before and able to share it with you. Your job is to listen and discern.

One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.

Anyone can grow into something beautiful.

While we teach knowledge, we are losing that teaching which is the most important one for human development: the teaching which can only be given by the simple presence of a mature, loving person.

You are responsible for everything you post and everything you post will be a reflection of you. [Social Media]

Don’t pay attention to those who offer too much.

Statesmen are grocers, ambitious clowns.

Everybody talks, but there is no conversation.

The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.

Imagine others complexly.

All things fade and quickly turn to myth.

Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself.

Having just enough life to enjoy being dead.

Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls?

You mark and celebrate errors, transforming failures into successes.

A smiling lie is a whirlwind, easy to enter, but hard to escape.

From the philosopher Catulus, never to be dismissive of a friend's accusation, even if it seems unreasonable, but to make every effort to restore the relationship to its normal condition.

I believe that the imagination is the passport we create to take us into the real world. I believe the imagination is another phrase for what is most uniquely us.

For a game, you don’t need a teacher.

See the moon? It hates us.

If the rest of your brain were conscious, it would probably regard you as the pointy-haired boss from Dilbert

He who writes well runs the civilization. Everyone else does the grunt work.

There can be no forced inspiration.

With a philosophy education, one can infuriate his peers, intimidate his date, think of obscure, unreliable ways to make money, and never regret a thing.

Philosophers, for example, often fail to recognize that their remarks about the universe apply also to themselves and their remarks. If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so.

Make a spurious division of one process into two, forget that you have done it, and then puzzle for centuries as to how the two get together.

... we can bear with great philosophy the sufferings of others, especially if we do not actually see them.

My favourite author is Leon Trotsky - the political philosophy and the way he writes is beautiful, and really relevant, too.

I now find my political philosophy more in line with Democrats than Republicans.

A great philosophy is not a philosophy without reproach; it is philosophy without fear.

In the western philosophy you can't perceive infinities at every moment. It's not there to do.

Democracy is not a form of government. It is a political philosophy that can be embodied in various systems of government.

In my political philosophy I think that there sometimes is room for violence.

Me, what's that after all? An arbitrary limitation of being bounded by the people before and after and on either side. Where they leave off I begin, and vice versa.

Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.

Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country.

If there is any characteristic that is distinctly human, it is the capability for reflective self-consciousness.

Ironic philosophies produce passionate works.

Most mistakes in philosophy and logic occur because the human mind is apt to take the symbol for the reality.

The pursuit of truth is just a polite name for the intellectual's favorite pastime of substituting simple and therefore false abstractions for the living complexities of reality.

Mrs. Wiggs was a philosopher, and the sum and substance of her philosophy lay in keeping the dust off her rose-colored spectacles.

RUBBISH, n. Worthless matter, such as the religions, philosophies, literatures, arts and sciences of the tribes infesting the regions lying due south from Boreaplas.

I refuse to believe that we're only here to live and die.

By the time a philospher answers a question weve usually forgotten what was asked.