It Philosophy Quotes

There’s no way you can kill someone and get to the other side of the experience unchanged.

Every person has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives to himself.

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

In the world of art, all things are possible.--George from Paradise Kiss

Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.

the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.

Philosophy is the toil which can never tire persons engaged in it. All ways are strewn with roses, and the farther you go, the more enchanting objects appear before you and invite you on.

You cannot connect with anyone except through reality.

Impossible things are really rough to do, you know.

No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition.

NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is Tolstoi.

Where do one's fears come from? Where do they shape themselves? Where do they hide before coming out into the open?

A sign of a lover of wisdom is his delight in not running his mouth about things he doesn't know.

On marriage: You sort of stumble along and reconnect and lose each other and reconnect again.

It's not oil that runs the world, it's shame.

To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing.

The wise man who has become accustomed to necessities knows better how to share with others than how to take from them, so great a treasure of self-sufficiency has he found.

I think it was the institution...I was trying to master it.

Everything, no matter how beautiful, is only with us for awhile.

Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph.

the Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor.

As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new.

By that which you kill are you bound.

What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline.

Godshawk looked surprised, the way that people generally do when you ask them philosophical questions in shrubberies in the middle of the night.

As long as a man had the courage to reject what society told him to do, he could live life on his own terms. To what end? To be free. But free to what end? To read books, to write books, to think.

It would be, for me, mere pointless pleasure, an illusion of order for this one frail, foolish, flicker-flash in the long dull fall of eternity.

The world was floods above and fire below

Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship.

Apocalypse is a frame of mind." [Nicodemus] said then. "A belief. A surrender to inevitability. It is a despair for the future. It is the death of hope.

The most important thing about a technology is how it changes people.

Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.

The awful thing is that if i can forget they're people, it will be no different at all

Every man knows that he will die: and nobody believes it. On that paradox stand not only a host of religions but the entity of a sane being.

Think of me as an impetuous Hegel, drunk with power, and also, regular drunk.

Freedom is an absolute state, there is no such thing as being half-free.

Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.

I think I exist, therefore I exist. I think.

The price we have paid for expecting to be so much more than our ancestors is a perpetual anxiety that we are far from being all we might be.

There's no backward and no forward, no day other than this. You fill your cart as you go, and that's that.

Make life easier by living in the present and believing in the future.

If you appreciate the small things, you're likely to get the big ones.

It’s ever been the way of the man of science or philosophy. Most folks stay in the dark and then complain they can’t see nothing.” – Snipes (185)

There's more to logic than identifying logical fallacies.

It's not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about.

Any person who, with all the sincerity of heart, is in search for God, on land or in the sea, is worthy of respect.

It takes a well-spent lifetime, and perhaps more, to crystalize in us that for which we exist.

What's the survival value of obsessing on a sunset?

Civilization is only possible for deeply unpleasant animals. It is only an ape that can be truly civilized.

The line between him and the enemy had simultaneously blurred and solidified. Somehow, while perhaps it shouldn't have, this thought provided a strange sense of peace.