It Philosophy Quotes

Philosophy bakes no bread

Nobody seriously believes in the social philosophies of the immediate past.

The essence of education is that it is a change effected in the organism to satisfy the operator.

Ethical metaphysics is fundamentally an attempt, however disguised, to give legislative force to our own wishes.

Wisdom corresponds to the future; it is philosophy.

Spending time at the Federal Reserve was a good learning opportunity for me. It helped me to understand economic philosophies and polices that I had not previously known about.

The kinds of claims I make about knowledge are thus meant to be illustrative of a general argumentative strategy which might well bear fruit in areas of philosophy which I have not thus far explored.

I do realise that talk of natural kinds dates back to Aristotle, but I'd better not say too much about ancient philosophers lest I be convicted of practicing history of philosophy without a license.

There is a worry that many have expressed that, on the naturalistic way of approaching philosophical questions, philosophy will somehow be co-opted by science. I'm not much worried about this.

To be nice to people and make them happy - that's my philosophy in life.

There is neither vice nor virtue, there are only circumstances.

To understand a philosopher requires a philosopher.

Unhappy business men, I am convinced, would increase their happiness more by walking six miles every day than by any conceivable change of philosophy.

The final arbitrator in philosophy is not how we think but what we do.

I think philosophy is extremely good training for anyone who wants to do anything. Although that is an idea which people may speak scornfully of now, I think it does teach one to

The message of guidance that neither politics nor philosophy nor religion now seems able to provide, we look for in modern literature.

When you talk about a million bucks, if you think about it very carefully, it's not that much money, if you start to divide it. You have to figure out a philosophy as to whom you want to give it to.

Cinema for me is an area of philosophy and artistic statement.

According to Nietzche," said a sharp new voice, making them all jump, "philosophy is the biography of the philosopher.

It is therefore wish'd that all commerce were as free between all the nations of the world as it is between the several counties of England.

Should philosophers be expected to change the world? Such an expectation seems to me extravagant. Marx himself didn't change the world: he reinterpreted it, then other people changed it.

Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.

My philosophy: find what it is you want to say, walk in the room, say it, and get the hell out.

Without time,” the angel said, “you have only the bottomless, shapeless mire of eternity.” “FYI, philosophy bores me.” “Not philosophy. Reality. Time is what gives life significance.

Plato's cave is full of freaks.

We need energy, commitment, and courage not to run from our life nor to cover it over with any philosophy—material or spiritual.

Any union that can't accept workers choosing their own representatives through universal franchise is finished.

I don't attach importance to great speeches or philosophy.

Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people.

The Biblical worldview is not given to us in the discursive and analytical language of philosophy and science, but in rich and compact language of symbolism and art.

There is also a philosophy of less-is-more, and a little dignity that never hurt anybody. There are many qualities to admire about our father's generation.

If you don't like my fire, then don't come around. Cause I'm gonna burn one down.

I really wanted to maintain that bedroom philosophy to creating stuff.

I came into acting with that sort of dull, meet-with-triumph-and-disaster-the-same philosophy and it's been the right one for me.

There is one great and universal wish of mankind expressed in all religions, in all art and philosophy, and in all human life: the wish to pass beyond himself as he now is.

... a little philosophy carries a man from God, but a great deal brings him back again.

Paul McCartney and John Lennon would often write a song a day, so I have the same workmanlike philosophy.

Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer.

Philosophy teaches you to think big.

To take philosophy seriously is to engage with it philosophically.

The Flinstones wore furs, they ate red meat, and had a stoneage philosophy. In fact, they were the first Republicans.

An intelligent being, is the active principle of all things. One must have renounced all common sense to doubt it, and it is a waste of time to try to prove such self evident truth.

He thinks like a philosopher, but governs like a king.

Man is condemned to be free

Your face is a billboard advertising your philosophy of life!

Life is nothing until it is lived; but it is yours to make sense of, and the of it is nothing other than the sense you choose.

It's always interesting to see what judges do when their legal philosophy conflicts with their political views.

I'm a believer in the parent first, friend second philosophy, and trying to find that balance.

Ain't it funny how a moment could just change your life, and you don't want to face what's wrong or right. Ain't it strange how fate can play a part, in the story of your heart.

It is profound philosophy to sound the depths of feeling and distinguish traits of character. Men must be studied as deeply as books.