It Philosophy Quotes

In metaphysics, the notion that earth and all that's on it is a mental construct is the product of people who spend their lives inside rooms. It is an indoor philosophy.

Reply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither.

Every man has two vocations: his own and philosophy.

Art, science, philosophy, religion -- each offers at best only a crude simplification of actual living experience.

When he was twenty-three or twenty-four my father began to learn German and read philosophy in his spare hours, which did not look as though he were destined to remain long on board ship!

Less is more, in prose as in architecture.

Greek is a musical and prolific language, that gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy.

Philosophy alone can boast (and perhaps it is no more than the boast of philosophy), that her gentle hand is able to eradicate from the human mind the latent and deadly principle of fanaticism.

Any questions I had about whether a redneck from Oklahoma could become a Brown Classical Philosophy professor ended when I met Tim [Blake Nelson].

As the profoundest philosophy of ancient Rome and Greece lighted her taper at Israel's altar, so the sweetest strains of the pagan muse were swept from harps attuned on Zion's hill.

I have no perfect panacea for human ills. And even if I had I would not attempt to present a system of philosophy between the soup and fish.

Philosophy rests on a proposition that whatever is is right. Preaching begins by assuming that whatever is is wrong.

It requires philosophy and heroism to rise above the opinion of the wise men of all nations and races.

There is not wrong, there is no right, and I will sleep very well tonight.

There is no monster more destructive than the inventive mind that has outstripped philosophy.

The truth can't hurt you, it's just like the dark. It scares you witless, but in time you see things clear and stark.

I am a seeker, a poor, sinful creature, there is no weaker than I.

The freewill you have given, we have made a mockery of.

There are a few things that I regret, but nothing that I need to forget.

For all the courage that we never had, I'm just about glad.

What's the good of reaching 90, if you waste 89?

I saw that philosophy had no power to make my life more bearable. Thus I lost my belief in philosophy.

A dim capacity for wings demeans the dress I wear.

What is it to be a philosopher? Is it not to be prepared against events?

The beginning of philosophy is the recognition of the conflict between opinions.

People seek a new orientation, a new philosophy, one which is centered on the priorities of life-physically and spiritually-and not on the priorities of death.

Everything you have is to give. Thou art a phenomenon of philosophy and an unfortunate man.

Fathers like to have children good-natured, well-behaved, and comfortable, but how to put them in that desirable condition is out of their philosophy.

The True-GNU philosophy is more extreme than I care for, but it certainly laid a foundation for the current scene, as well as providing real software.

Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations.

Philosophy is a state of fermentation a process without final outcome.

Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.

In addition to their 'do no evil' motto, Googlers have always been guided by another, much less explicit philosophy: 'computational arrogance.'

Yoga began as a philosophy rather than as a physical discipline.

I was a poet animated by philosophy, not a philosopher with poetic faculties.

My basic philosophy is that no human being is a saint.

The essence of jiu-jitsu is philosophy.

You have heard of, and studied various systems of philosophy; but real philosophy is opposed to all systems.

To persevere is always a reflection of the state of one's inner life, one's philosophy and one's perspective

I had four hundred thousand pages of continental philosophy and lit theory in my head. And by God, I was going to use it to prove to him that I was smarter than he was.

Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the authority of men counted great in philosophy, and then by general consent.

Such philosophy as shall not vanish in the fume of subtile, sublime, or delectable speculation but shall be operative to the endowment and betterment of man's life.

Money goes to money heaven, body goes to body hell.

Secret thinker sometimes listening aloud.

We are questioning more than the philosophy behind our dependence upon limited and limiting systems. We question the power structures that have grown up around such systems.

It has been said that in order to pursue the history of Biblical interpretation, you must include the whole philosophy of the West, which informs it at every stage.

However good an argument in philosophy may happen to be, it is generally not good enough.

We need fewer philosophies and more philosophers.

The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.

I have a philosophy, a belief, which I can see in many, many other directors that your early work is your best work, because you don't know what you're doing.