It Philosophy Quotes
Peace cannot come by legislation or through affiliation with any political philosophy...Peace, joy, and happiness can come only through an acceptance of God's revealed plan of life.
My parents have a strong work ethic, but their attitude to life, their philosophy, is: 'whatever makes you happy.
There is an Arabic writer who wrote philosophy and poetry and who brought all religions and all the world together.
Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.
To admire on principle is the only way to imitate without loss of originality.
I dislike the frequent use of the word virtue, instead of righteousness, in the pulpit; in prayer or preaching before a Christian community, it sounds too much like pagan philosophy.
Everything your students need to know about philosophy communicated in a way that appeals to them, as well as inspire many of them to the study of philosophy.
I'm not on the court anymore, so no use looking for my philosophy. If somebody's waiting for that, they can wait for another justice.
I looked at the sweatshirt again. "'You swim' is a philosophy?" He shrugged. "Better than 'you sink', right?
I've got to live my life the way I feel is right for me. Might not be right for you, but it's right for me.
You can't do science in a novel, but you can do philosophy. Or, if you're really lucky, you can manage to pose a question in such a way that other people will take it on.
Misfortunes, in fine, cannot be avoided; but they may be sweetened, if not overcome, and our lives made happy by philosophy.
Philosophy alone makes the mind invincible, and places us out of the reach of fortune, so that all her arrows fall short of us.
Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel...You are called in to help the unhappy.
There's no longer a monolithic evil empire somewhere, spreading a different philosophy of life. That doesn't exist.
I was not looking for a sitcom, because the philosophy at that point was that you had to make a choice: Were you going to do movies or TV? You couldn't cross over.
Philosophy is a bad master for poetry; religion worse; and politics self-serving will never serve the Muse.
The next time anyone asks you "What is Bertrand Russell's philosophy?" the correct answer is "What year, please?"
There are lots of stories about how philosophy begins. Some people claim it begins in wonder; some people claim it begins in worry. I claim it begins in disappointment.
For me, philosophy is an activity of thought that is common to human beings. Human beings at their best.
Philosophy for me is essentially atheistic. Now that's an anxious atheism. It's an atheism that is anxious because it inhabits questions that were resolved religiously in the pre-modern period.
Philosophy teaches us to look at the world again. It brings out at a theoretical level what all plain, common, ordinary people, in a sense, know already.
Without ego I don't know how identity works, I don't know... I need to sit down and re-read some philosophy or something.
My philosophy is if you're going to work 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for not a whole lot of money, why work for someone you're not gonna be loyal to?
The most important philosophy I think is that even if it isn't true you must absolutely assume there is no afterlife.
I emphatically do not assert the general 'truth' of this philosophy of punctuational change. Any attempt to support the exclusive validity of such a grandiose notion would border on the nonsensical.
My philosophy is, 'Show up, shut up, and do your job,' and if you do it to the satisfaction of your director and the public, you're likely to be able to do it again.
College totally changed my life. It changed what I believe and what I think about everything. I majored in philosophy.
I always lov'd Precaution, and took care to avoid Dangers. But when a thing was past, I ever had Philosophy to be easie.
