It Philosophy Quotes
When the long bygone Lee Po wanted to say something, he could do it with only a few words.
Of the thousands who have paid homage to virtue, barely one has thought to inspect the pedestal on which it stands.
How many unuttered words died in the heads of those for whom a word was too expensive.
Either all lights are turned off or one inner light is missing.
If what we think of ourselves were true, the planet would overflow with geniuses.
Our desire to say more grows bigger and what to say about it, except that saying is not always about saying, growing is not always about growing.
What can a soldier do when mercy is treason, and he is alone in it?
If I want to feel as if I'm being sucked down a fathomless gloomy tunnel for hours and hours then I have a complete set of Schopenhauer at home.
There is in Albert Camus’ literary craftsmanship a seductive intelligence that could almost make a reader dismiss his philosophical intentions if he had not insisted on making them so clear.
There’s been terrible things we seen, en’t there? And more a coming, more’n likely. So I think I’d rather not know what’s in the future. I’ll stick to the present.
The test of real and vigorous thinking, the thinking which ascertains truths instead of dreaming dreams, is successful application to practice.
Since I see technology as being an extension of the human body, it's inevitable that it should come home to roost.
I find my data first in myself, not first in the poets. For if I did not find it in myself, I would not be able to find it in the poets.
My confidence is in the idea that I may be wrong on this or that. No man in this life should ever have to bear the burden of perfection.
Religion is tied to the deepest feelings people have. The love that arises from that stewing pot is the sweetest and strongest, but the hate is the hottest, and the anger is the most violent.
At the end of the day, we all live in this world together and to practice bringing peace onto social media is a huge step into bringing peace into our world.
You walk around feeling like a teenager and immortal your whole life, and suddenly there isn't much time left.
Water liked to be free. Given time, water could overcome any barrier, and it hated to be trapped, just like Percy.
The past is an obdurate stranger that puts as many marks on us as we attempt to impose on it.
I still believe that many Americans have a deep longing for that glorious moment when a sermon is more Biblical than American.
How do I appear unthreatening when her lover's blood is running down my chin?
World is a divine play. At the beginning and at the end, we are the same.
It is better to doubt that a concept is stupidly flying under your head than profoundly flying over your head.
If you keep your eyes so fixed on heaven that you never look at the earth, you will stumble into hell.
I enjoy poetry where I can talk as bizarre as I please, but theology or philosophy, I always respect the truth by taking it a step further.
To advocate irrationality is to advocate that which is destructive to human life.
There is a sad disconnectedness that overcomes a library when its owner is gone.
If you don't want to be in an argument with someone, it is probably best to try to solve the problem, rather than lying around hoping the other person will do it for you.
For a God that created everything, it is mystifying why he created so much competition.
Cheats prosper until there are enough who bear grudges against them to make sure they do not prosper.
I am not here to merely argue about the perplexities regarding theism or philosophy, but to be a light to the world and to reach out to those who long to be a part of that light.
To bracket form and finality out of one's investigations as far as reason allows is a matter of method, but to deny their reality altogether is a matter of metaphysics.