It Philosophy Quotes

If the world was made for us, then it BELONGS to us and we can do what we damn well please with it.

Every life has a destiny... the trick is to discover it before then end of your life. Otherwise, you will have too many regrets.

We must think beyond ourselves

You need contradictions to make an ideal.

Some concepts are so incredibly risky they take an honest fool to try to articulate them.

A loud smile is often a fake laugh.

You are the hybrids of golden worlds and ages splendidly conceived.

Maybe heaven entailed more than a soul residing in a single place, but instead having pieces of yourself spread among the hearts and memories of people you've touched.

Can a woman not walk with her possessions down the street of a city?

Serious thinkers are few, and the world is ruled by crude ideas.

But the goal of the arts, culinary or otherwise, is not to increase our comfort. That is the goal of an easy chair.

One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them.

We are the sum total of the decisions we have made.

Hatred is a form of faith, distilled by passion to remove all rationality.

A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the images.

If you could disagree with kings, were gods so far above?

If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.

To be poor, ugly and, moreover, intelligent condemns one in our society to a dark and disillusioned life...to beauty all is forgiven.

When we sense something, it is due to the movement of atoms in space. When I see the moon it is because "moon atoms" penetrate my eye.

To be a philosopher, just reverse everything you have ever been told...and have a sense of humor doing it.

Not telling is just as interesting as telling I have found. Why speech, that short verbal journey from inside to outside can be excrutiating under certain circumstances is fascinating.

We chart delusions through collective agreement.

Philosophy cannot be extinguished, though men will try ... The spirit seeks the light, that is its nature. It wishes to return to its origin, and must forever try to reach enlightenment.

The philosophy of poetry must acknowledge that the poetic act has no past, at least no recent past, in which its preparation and appearance could be followed.

Is beauty enhanced or adulterated by utility?

To establish that a rule is likely to be true, one must try to prove it false.

In the essence of truth lies deceit.

God is a cloud from which rain fell.

God is busy and has no time for you.

When following God, Zero we never find.

Hope without love is hopeless.

Creators of history always play with our impotence and our ignorance.

Serious affairs and history are carefully laid snares for the uninformed.

To conquer fear, you must become fear.

All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.

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.

That my philosophy of life is, as far as possible, one of enjoyment. I'm not nihilistic.

A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion.

Having a personal philosophy is like having a pet marmoset, because it may be very attractive when you acquire it, but there may be situations when it will not come in handy at all.

If a liberal political philosophy stands for anything, and I am no longer sure it does, then it must mean that we are committed to the leveling of the playing field for everyone.

Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy so far has been: namely, the personal confession of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir.

The negatives were [Adolf Hitler] political philosophies, but neither Eva [Braun] or I knew anything that was going on.

I'm very passionate about philosophy and religion.

There might be a lot of physical chemistry within a couple, but without the compatibility of life philosophy and interests then the relationship will likely not be long-lasting.

Throughout my entire public career I have followed the personal philosophy that I am a free man, an American, a public servant, and a member of my party, in that order always and only.

I believe that white frame house is worthy of more than a nod of nostalgia, because the values President Clinton learned there and in Hope formed the core of his political philosophy.

My interest in political philosophy was rather casual until I met Hayek.

It's true that Eastern philosophy and religion were not unknown to me as a child, since my father has explored much in that area, and written books more or less in that area, too.

One way ... in which a political philosophy can be ideological is by presenting a relatively marginal issue as if it were central and essential.

We've got communism. We have Bushism. We have Clintonism. But there isn't a Trumpism. Bullet-point for me what the Trump political philosophy is and you can't do it, because he's not a political guy.