It Philosophy Quotes
Do not commit spiritual suicide through a passion for discussing metaphysical subtleties.
I wrote this book to show you that a cure is entirely possible because I've seen it happen over and over again.
Ronald Reagan was a president of strength. His philosophy was a philosophy of strength - a strong military, a strong economy and strong families.
Arrival in the world is really a departure and that, which we call departure, is only a return.
He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.
My fundamental philosophy is that you owe it to society to transfer to them any knowledge you have that might be useful.
Sometimes the world is so much sicker than the inmates of its institutions.
There are essentially three types of people: those who love life more than they fear it, those who fear life more than they love it, and those who have no clue what I'm talking about.
The hardest thing for a sane person to do is not care what anyone thinks, although everyone swears by it, hence our glorification of insanity.
God loves atheists. The former ones make the most compelling theists because they're so empirically familiar with how atheists think.
I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.
I wondered what things what things became when you no longer needed them, and I wondered what the future would hold once we'd gotten past our personal tragedies and proven them ultimately survivable.
life ain't supposed to be nothing, 'cept maybe tough
There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of the kitchen table.
There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all.
Were prayers of murderers, when fighting on the “right side” of the war, ever heard—let alone answered?
To be, or not to be: what a question!
There was no safety. There was no pride. All there was, was money. Everything became money, and money became everything. Money treated us as if we were things, and we died.
All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.
Serious affairs and history are carefully laid snares for the uninformed.
Creators of history always play with our impotence and our ignorance.
It is not fit that I should give myself pain, for I have never intentionally given pain even to another.
Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.
There is only one way to achieve lasting happiness. That is simply: Be happy.
A number of our scientists boast intelligence but lack wisdom. I find those to be the predictable ones.
All paths are present, always... and we can but choose among them.
You know how the tightrope guy at the circus wants everyone to believe his act is an art, but deep down you can see that he's really just hoping he makes it all the way across?
Time is what keeps things from happening all at once.
