It Philosophy Quotes

Among the facts of the universe to be accounted for, it may be said, is Mind; and it is self evident that nothing can have produced Mind but Mind.

One of my philosophies as a director is to listen to other people's great ideas because they'll help make you better.

We'll laugh and toast to nothing, and smash our empty glasses down.

I have no personal system of philosophy. I never attempt to do that. I am merely a man of letters.

Thy steady temper, Portius, Can look on guilt, rebellion, fraud, and Cæsar, In the calm lights of mild philosophy.

A state of temperance, sobriety and justice without devotion is a cold, lifeless, insipid condition of virtue, and is rather to be styled philosophy than religion.

It strains a man's philosophy the worst kind to laugh when he gets beat.

Man can live his truth, his deepest truth, but cannot speak it.

Men accept without questioning that this world is real and important and worthwhile. This is faith. Philosophy is the ongoing questioning of this faith.

Philosophy is not to think deep, but simply speak life's basics that arise, aware and awaken people who are knowingly or unknowingly in the state of sleep.

Monogamy is monotonous, but it's safe you know. And that's my philosophy. And I like to convey that to people.

Would there be this eternal seeking if the found existed?

I took all the philosophy courses I could.

Philosophy has to be enquiring; it can take nothing on faith, and its methods are based not on the blind acceptance of authority, but on establishing truths by reason and argument.

The border between the natural and the supernatural, religion and philosophy, may not always be clear. But there are lines and we should know and accept which side of it we are on.

If philosophy is to be a valuable part of life, we have to appreciate it for its own sake, and not just for what it's done for us lately.

I don't feel proprietorial about the problems of philosophy. History has taught us that many philosophical issues can grow up, leave home and live elsewhere.

Will our Philosophy to later Life Seem but a crudeness of the planet's youth, Our Wisdom but a parasite of Truth?

No individual is isolated. He who is sad, saddens others.

My philosophy is always, "Let's get the spirit of the character." If people believe in it and the spirit of it, then it will work.

If your divines are not philosophers, your philosophy will neither be divine, nor able to divine.

No philosopher was ever apathetic. If there is no love, it is not philosophy.

Children, viewed from one angle, are philosophy in motion.

My philosophy is pretty simple – any day nobody’s trying to kill me is a good day in my book.

There is no philosophy that is not to some extent also theology.

As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.

Philosophy is tested and characterised by the way in which it appropriates its history.

democracy is dying. We are ruled by faceless bureaucrats and lecherous puritans. ... You think about it. 'All right for me but not for you' is their philosophy.

You wanted to destroy philosophy and poetry in order to make room for religion and morality which you misunderstood: but you wereable to destroy only yourself.

Kant introduced the concept of the negative into philosophy. Would it not also be worthwhile to try to introduce the concept of the positive into philosophy?

Feel free to listen, feel free to stare.

I cannot name this, I cannot explain this, and I really don't want to so just call me shameless.

I would rather have these things weigh on my mind. At the end of this tunnel of guilt and shame, there must be a light of some kind.

Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.

Without poetry, religion becomes obscure, false, and malignant; without philosophy, licentious in all wantonness, and lascivious to the point of self-castration.

The life and vigor of poetry consists of the fact that it steps out of itself, tears out a section of religion, then withdraws into itself to assimilate it. The same is true of philosophy.

We negotiate with chaos for some sense of satisfaction.

Virtue is relative at best, there's nothing worse than a sunset when your driving due West.

The few existing writings against Kantian philosophy are the most important documents in the case history of sound common sense.

Religion and morals are symmetrically opposed, just like poetry and philosophy.

Philosophy still moves too much straight ahead, and is not yet cyclical enough.

When you're coming up with your philosophy and approach to performing comedy, you take special note of the things you disagree with as much as the things you agree with.

Poetry and philosophy are, according to how you take them, different spheres, different forms, or factors of religion. Try to really combine both, and you will have nothing but religion.

Every philosophical review ought to be a philosophy of reviews at the same time.

The greatest art is philosophy.

The final philosophy is the ontology of God.

The failure of the past philosophers is largely the failure to see the self-evident.

I speculate that this is the best of all possible worlds, for philosophy is the best of humanity, and this world is the best philosophically.

I'm a slumdog philosopher.

The ultimate philosophical challenge is to reveal the ontology of God.