It Philosophy Quotes

There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation.

Philosophy means liberation from the - routine, soaring above the well known, seeing it in new perspectives, arousing wonder and the wish to fly.

We may receive so much light as not to see, and so much philosophy as to be worse than foolish.

All schools of philosophy, and almost all authors, are rather to be frequented for exercise than for weight.

Investment philosophy is the clear understanding that by owning shares of stocks he owns businesses, not pieces of paper.

The body learns through exaggeration and contrast

When you're feeling full of doubt and fear has got you in a bind, love will save the day.

My philosophy is making a movie is difficult enough and I just feel as if you should have a really good time when you do make films whether it's a drama or a comedy.

Philosophy abounds more than philosophers, and learning more than learned men.

Auguries of innocence "The emmet's inch and eagle's mile Make lame philosophy to smile. He who doubts from what he sees Will ne'er believe, do what you please.

It was my first meeting with a philosophy that confirmed my vague speculations and seemed at once logical and boundless.

The night can sweat with terror as before We pieced our thoughts into philosophy, And planned to bring the world under a rule, Who are but weasels fighting in a hole.

First of all you must understand that practising martial arts means studying a certain oriental philosophy of life, otherwise it's merely a vacuous sport devoid of any significance.

Feeling in the young precedes philosophy, and often acts with a more certain aim.

Proverbs embody the current and practical philosophy of an age or nation.

Philosophy has its bugbears, as well as superstition.

We live in a war of two antagonistic ethical philosophies, the ethical policy taught in the books and schools, and the success policy.

An educated memory depends on an organized system of associations; and its goodness depends on two of their peculiarities: first, on the persistency of the associations; and, second, on their number.

It is astonishing how many mental operations we can explain when we have once grasped the principles of association

An idea will infect another with its own emotional interest when they have become both associated together into any sort of a mental total.

The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.

The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.

We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully guard against the growing into ways that are likely to be disadvantageous.

In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.

Our volitional habits depend, then, first, on what the stock of ideas is which we have; and, second, on the habitual coupling of the several ideas with action or inaction respectively.

Volition . . . takes place only when there are a number of conflicting systems of ideas, and depends on our having a complex field of consciousness.

Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world's life

To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.

Considering the inner fitness of things, one would rather think that the very first act of a will endowed with freedom should be to sustain the belief in the freedom itself.

... A rule of thinking which would absolutely prevent me from acknowledging certain kinds of truth if those ... truths were really there, would be an irrational rule.

To know psychology, therefore, is absolutely no guarantee that we shall be good teacher.

Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.

No reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression, -this is the great maxim which the teacher ought never to forget.

I went to Notre Dame. I don't know if that has any relevance, but maybe we all had a little too much philosophy and theology.

Paradox is thus a much deeper and universal concept than the ancients would have dreamed. Rather than an oddity, it is a mainstay of the philosophy of science.

I shall show the cinders of my spirits Through the ashes of my chance.

The bosom-weight, your stubborn gift, That no philosophy can lift.

You must look at facts, because they look at you.

No one should waste a day.

Go away, you give philosophy nothing to catch hold of.

Let the answers be wrong, let the philosophy be mistaken - errors are more valuable than truths: truth is of the machine, error is alive; truth reassures, error disturbs.

As the writer of the lyric of the song 'God's Country,' I am outraged by the suggestion that somehow I am connected with, believe in, or am sympathetic with Communist or totalitarian philosophy.

For whatever reason I was always obsessed with the potential of humanity's physicality. Especially since we grew up with such a non-physical philosophy.

It's easy to confuse a woman for a philosophy

I make music that I know that people will enjoy, and balance the ideas and philosophy that we put in music with music that when we play it live, people can move to it and groove to it.

A man that steps aside from the world and has leisure to observe it without interest and design, thinks all mankind as mad as they think him.

Progress, then, is a property of the evolution of life as a whole by almost any conceivable intuitive standard.... let us not pretend to deny in our philosophy what we know in our hearts to be true.

We shared a philosophy together [with June Hillary]. We believed very strongly in the welfare of helping other people, particularly the Third World people.

A good philosopher is one who does not take ideas seriously.

Fiction supplies the only philosophy that may readers know; it establishes their ethical, social, and material standards; it confirms them in their prejudices or opens their minds to a wider world.