It Philosophy Quotes

When you have a great audience, you can just keep going and finding new things.

The only weapon we have is comedy.

Crying never helped anybody do anything, okay? You have a problem, you face it like a man.

Fight Club is a thrill ride masquerading as philosophy - the kind of ride where some people puke and others can't wait to get on again.

Every show is your last show. That's my philosophy.

Be attentive, feel nothing in vain, measure and compare: this is the whole law of philosophy.

The fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. When we ask the time, we don't want to know how watches are made.

Philosophy must indeed recognize the possibility that the people rise to it, but must not lower itself to the people.

Reason in my philosophy is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

Saints cannot arise where there have been no warriors, nor philosophers where a prying beast does not remain hidden in the depths.

Philosophy may describe unreasoning, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

What philosophy worthy of the name has truly been able to avoid the link between poem and theorem?

Of the opinions of philosophy I most gladly embrace those that are most solid, that is to say, most human and most our own; my opinions, in conformity with my conduct, are low and humble.

I practice Buddhist philosophy and contemplation but I don't know if I'm more of anything.

I could have been you, you could have been me. One small change that shapes your destiny.

There is an ocean of endless opportunities, and there are so many things that one can do. I'm so fortunate that I've grown up with this sort of a philosophy and mentality.

In philosophy, the principles are more interesting than the examples. In literature, the examples are more interesting than the principles.

When appearance and reality coincide, philosophy and literary criticism find themselves with nothing to say.

The grandeur of a philosophy does not certify its truth.

There is no place in the world, I imagine, for a philosopher with a sense of humor, a new leisure, and an inquiring turn of mind!

I think that's what we really need in America, for people to hear each other. And I think philosophy could do a little bit better on that.

And we wonder what can be that 'philosophy of education' which believes that young people can be trained to the duties of citizenship by wrapping their minds in cotton wool.

Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes and compel it to inquire about life and standards and goods and evils.

Probabilities direct the conduct of the wise man.

American life is builded ... upon that fundamental philosophy announced by the Savior nineteen centuries ago ... [It] can not survive with the defense of Cain, "Am I my brother's keeper?

That's always been my philosophy. - I've never thought of the consequences of a necessary action.

If you have to ask for something more than once or twice, it wasn't yours in the first place. And that's hard to accept when you love someone.

Who needs the sun, when the rain is so full of life?

Temperament is fixed, set. The skull, followed by the temperament: the two hardest parts of the body. Follow your temperament. It is not a philosophy, It is a rule, like the Rule of St Benedict.

I think I summed up my attitude to philosophy when I said: philosophy ought really to be written only as a poetic composition.

The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thought.

All invisible from where we stand the connections come to pass, and though too strong to comprehend they affect us not the less.

Truth is not the enemy and whatever does not kill us, sets us free.

History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page.

Selfness is an essential fact of life. The thought of nonselfness, precise sameness is terrifying.

Don't dwell on what has passed away or what is yet to be.

When you're hot your hot, when you're not your not.

Income is primarily determined by your philosophy, not by the economy

The wise trusts not only to his physical eyes - thus he can see clearly.

I also ask you my friends not to condemn me entirely to the mill of mathematical calculations, and allow me time for philosophical speculations, my only pleasures.

I don't walk around talking about my life and spouting my philosophy to people I don't know. I mean, if I get to know them, I'll talk for hours. I guess I like a lower-key scene.

Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites.

My own philosophy is that one should share what wisdom he has, one should help others to help themselves and one should keep going despite heavy weather, for there is always a calm ahead.

My philosophy of defense is to keep the pressure on an opponent until you get to his emotions

If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar.

I wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the office with the same philosophy one uses inside it.

Genuine philosophical problems are always rooted outside philosophy and they die if these roots decay.

To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live.

My connection to Santa Fe is very closely, and continuously a connection with Reid. I believe in him and his philosophy of photographic education.

What happens if I try to build a life dedicated to avoiding all danger and all unnecessary risk?