It Philosophy Quotes

You didn't kill him. He would have killed you, but you didn't kill him." "So? He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn't have time to sleep.

There is the philosophy embedded in the culture we are living. It is quite clear for example that Arabs have a different culture than Malaysians.

I don't know that I have a single comedy philosophy. But talking about things that matter to you is a good place to start. Listening is a big part of it, too.

Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse.

No one's policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

Only with maturity did I come to appreciate my own Chinese roots: not just the food and the ancient history, but also the philosophy of child-rearing and the respect for education and knowledge.

The decisions of the courts on economic and social questions depend on their economic and social philosophy.

A Grecian history, perfectly written should be a complete record of the rise and progress of poetry, philosophy, and the arts.

What then is the wisdom of the times called old? Is it the wisdom of gray hairs? No. It is the wisdom of the cradle.

Triumphal arch, that fill'st the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud Philosophy To teach me what thou art.

What is philosophy but a continual battle against custom?

History is philosophy teaching by experience.

The philosopher is he to whom the highest has descended, and the lowest has mounted up; who is the equal and kindly brother of all.

History after all is the true poetry.

There is but one temple in this Universe: The Body. We speak to God whenever we lay our hands upon it.

Rightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant; all objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself.

As is the inventor of murder, and the father of art, Cain must have been a man of first-rate genius.

Science never makes an advance until philosophy authorizes it to do so.

Leisure can be one of the Mothers of Philosophy.

In truth, the laboratory is the forecourt of the temple of philosophy, and whoso has not offered sacrifices and undergone purification there has little chance of admission into the sanctuary.

As you are entered with the class of Nat. philosophy, give to it the hours of lecture, but devote all your other time to Mathematics, avoiding company as the bane of all progress.

The first business of philosophy is to account for things as they are; and till our theories will do this, they ought not to be the ground of any practical conclusion.

It accords with the most liberal spirit of philosophy to suppose that not a stone can fall, or a plant rise, without the immediate agency of divine power.

It is a faculty of the human mind to become what it contemplates, and to act in unison with its object.

I think that [there is] this fundamental right to privacy and the philosophy that government shouldn't be intrusive.

I do think that philosophy and science are very different intellectual enterprises, but that does not mean that when we get knowledge from philosophy it is a different kind of knowledge.

I think the philosophy will continue to be what it always was; which was, let's keep throwing a bunch of things at the wall, and see what sticks.

I would absolutely like to play more leading roles. There’s no philosophy - well, the only philosophy, I suppose, is to try and do different things.

He don't wanna change, what don't need to change.

'Neotenty' is 'remaining young,' and it may be ironic that it is so little known, because human evolution has been dominated by it.

Nobody quite knew what to make of the moon any more.

There are two lost continents.... We are one: the lovers.

You're familiar with the tragedies of antiquity, are you? The great homicidal classics?

"The [London] Times" has published no rumours; it's only reported facts, namely that other, less responsible papers are publishing certain rumours.

It's new, it's improved, it's old fashioned.

[I am against] the Treaty of Rome which entrenches laissez faire as its philosophy and chooses bureaucracy as its administrative method.

When I was in my late teens I was already interested in philosophy.

When God saved me, He gave me a thirst to learn and to read and to study. I thrived in college. I got a bachelor's degree in philosophy and then went to Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando.

Let me purify my thoughts and words and deeds that I may be a vehicle for thee.

Become enraptured by the sights and sounds in intrigue of nature and beauty, come along with me and take it all in. Come here my love.

I have some intellectual-type pursuits, like studying philosophy and stuff like that.

What is philosophy? It is something that lightens up, that makes bright.

Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it.

During a wise man's whole life, his destiny holds his philosophy in a state of siege.

Philosophy should be an energy; it should find its aim and its effect in the amelioration of mankind.

I've imparted that philosophy to the writers, but some of them look stuff up while some don't. Same with the editors, directors and actors. To each their own.

... Do not let the deeds and thoughts of other people confuse you; let them not prompt you to do or say anything evil!

Why, since we are always complaining of our ills, are we constantly employed in redoubling them?

The great critic … must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things.

Great and terrible systems of divinity and philosophy lie round about us, which, if true, might drive a wise man mad.