It Philosophy Quotes

Everybody has their own approach. I don't adhere to any one philosophy. I learn a lot from life and people - watching and other people watching.

I come from a theater family and a theater background, and I come from a philosophy that you respect the space you occupy when you work and you put everything that you have into something.

My philosophy on what makeup is...it's very different from what a woman's is. Makeup came from a very psychological place - of the peacock.

If we are going to save America and evangelize the world, we cannot accommodate secular philosophies that are diametrically opposed to Christian truth.

The men who are not interested in philosophy need it most urgently; they are most helplessly in its power.

To achieve, you need thought

Ever since Kant divorced reason from reality, his intellectual descendants have been diligently widening the breach.

One of the most destructive anti-concepts in the history of moral philosophy is the term 'duty.

But Aristotle's philosophy was the intellect's Declaration of Independence.

What objectivity and the study of philosophy requires is not an 'open mind,' but an active mind - a mind able and eagerly willing to examine ideas, but to examine them criticially.

You must know for yourself, directly, the truth of yourself and you cannot realize it through another, however great. There is no authority that can reveal it.

To be honest, I want readers to be wrung out. As a novelist, I don't have a political agenda or specific philosophy; I'm trying to create a gut-wrenching, intimate, memorable experience.

It's a sort of philosophy you cook up for yourself. You probably write things the same as everybody else, but it's your own personal way of saying things.

Good and evil lay side by side.

My philosophy in life, where I was trying to get, could have been a little bit different.

My whole philosophy in survival is to take down brush as soon as you get in a situation.

Press conferences are good. I have my own philosophy about press conferences. I usually think that when they don't like the movie, they ask about other things.

Any allegation of runaway capitalism has to be tempered by the observation that today we have the largest public sectors and the highest taxes the world has ever known.

That happy state of mind, so rarely possessed, in which we can say, "I have enough," is the highest attainment of philosophy.

I bought some books in order to learn the first principles of philosophy.

We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness; anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic.

It's not so much a philosophy as much as it is a pace. We need to be personally involved with every aspect of the records including the artwork, we want everything to have a similar aesthetic.

Truth as philosophy is a gas; as art, it is visible steam.

Man errs as long as he strives.

One lives but once in the world.

When a watch goes ill, it is not enough to move the hands; you must set the regulator. When a man does ill, it is not enough to alter his handiwork, you must regulate his heart.

Philosophy is the love of wisdom: Christianity is the wisdom of love.

Time does not relinquish its rights, either over human beings or over mountains.

Alas, I have studied philosophy, the law as well as medicine, and to my sorrow, theology; studied them well with ardent zeal, yet here I am, a wretched fool, no wiser than I was before.

During half a century of literary work, I have endeavoured to introduce the philosophy of evolution into the sphere of literature, and to inspire my readers to think in evolutionary terms.

I've not got a first in philosophy without being able to muddy things pretty satisfactory.

Monotheism occupies so large a space in the view of modern minds, that it is scarcely possible to form a just estimate of the preceding phases of the theological philosophy.

Maybe it's my libertarian philosophy: but being in government is hard.

One connection I see between the work I did on philosophy and my work on technology is that both communities tend to mystify and create an atmosphere of complexity.

Empirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without philosophic tendency are like a face without eyes.

Without the English, reason and philosophy would still be in the most despicable infancy in France.

For the purpose of acquiring gain, everything else is pushed aside or thrown overboard, for example, as is philosophy by the professors of philosophy.

It is difficult to connect general principles with such thoroughly concrete things as children.

The moment philosophy supposes it can find a final and comprehensive solution, it ceases to be inquiry and becomes either apologetics or propaganda.

I still feel-kind of temporary about myself.

Teachers are the agents through which knowledge and skills are communicated and rules of conduct enforced.

Philosophy recovers itself when it ceases to be a device for dealing with the problems of philosophers and becomes a method, cultivated by philosophers, for dealing with the problems of men.

The difference between the reason of man and the instinct of the beast is this, that the beast does but know, but the man knows that he knows.

Mr. Greed, why do you have to own everything that you see?

The common prejudice against philosophy is the result of the incapacity of the multitude to deal with the highest problems.

I love conversation and the sharing of different thoughts and philosophies. That kind of stuff always makes me happy. I don't mind interviews, either - I like doing them.

The minute hand moves faster than you think it does.

Gold is a relic from a time when government's were less trustworthy in these matters (currency debasement) than they are now.

With no bottom line, it's hard to know wrong from right. But I ain't ever satisfied.

Our country is where ever we are well off.