It Philosophy Quotes

Philosophy is the only excuse God has for his cruelty and vanity.

The best of humanity is philosophy.

Philosophy only seems to offer endless dispute, with no cakes and ale.

The Arab who built himself a hut with marbles from the temple of Palmyra is more philosophical than all the curators of the museums of London, Paris, and Munich.

I have always had deep concerns about anyone's philosophy being imposed on the entire community.

The boundary between philosophy and fiction is not as clear cut as you may think and the two definitely interact.

The controversy as to whether socialism is possible has been settled by the fact that it exists, and it is a fundamental axiom of my philosophy, at any rate, that anything that exists, is possible.

Bader's philosophy was my philosophy. His whole attitude to life was mine.

No one can tell what the future holds, you're backs to the corner, you make the choice of how it goes.

Education in philosophy is energy speaking to energy, a higher perspective of spirit that is trying to awaken its next natural generation to something beyond the stupid appearances of things.

I believe if you want to convey a complex philosophy, its advisable to keep it simple: day-to-day lingo.

Intellect is merely a narrow and highly specific kind of thing that we DO, but our immediacy relates us to what we naturally and essentially ARE, the actualities of our full-dimensional existence.

When academics claim a topic is obsolete, they mean merely they are tired of flogging it with their cliches.

PYRRHONISM- An ancient philosophy, named for its inventor. It consisted of an absolute disbelief in everything but Pyrrhonism. Its modern professors have added that.

If you like capitalism, you will positively love depressions, because they are one and the same, like manic-depressives and their cycles, like spouse-abusers and their storms of violence.

I'm not a proper anything. Majoring in philosophy kind of turns positive assertions into maybes.

When lost in a forest go always down hill. When lost in a philosophy or doctrine go upward.

I think - and even with the Live Chin Up movement - it's about women doing things for themselves. Being empowered. Doing things that make you happy. I believe in that philosophy.

I get a feeling of peace from a low so high, as I sit in my chair and watch life go by.

I love art. But I love it because it is the expression of a living philosophy. It's the leftovers. Art is what's left over from life.

I like to think that death gives life meaning. I like that philosophy.

Once you understand that there's a spiritual math, add soul to the science and subtract the riff-raff. 24-7-365, cause 9 to 5 ain't alive.

Consciousness... I think we should think of it as something we do.

All we know of science or of religion comes from philosophy. It lies behind and above all other knowledge we have or use.

I have quite a bit of sympathy for the idea that psychology and cognitive science have much to offer philosophy, and that the reverse is true as well.

That's kind of what we have here. I think we've just grown apart, we have different philosophies, and we're going in different directions.

A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.'

But in philosophy, sometimes the baby ought to go out with the bath water.

Empiricist philosophy always tends to be anti-philosophy (and is often proud of it).

Philosophy is about getting the facts right, but it is also about thinking rightly about them. Philosophy is more about the latter than the former.

Teaching and writing about philosophy is about the only thing I've ever been really good at.

In the mid-1960s, as hard to believe as it may be now, choosing to go into academic philosophy was not an imprudent career choice. There were lots of academic jobs in philosophy then.

He does not struggle with anyone - thus no one can vanquish him.

Only he who does not seek to be ahead of others is capable of living in harmony with everyone.

The wise does not think that only he is right -thus he knows the truth.

Being satisfied with little, you can gain much. Seeking much you will go astray. The wise heeds this precept. If it could be so with all people!

He does not seek glory - yet people respect him.

Philosophy is the product of wonder. The effort after the general characterization of the world around us is the romance of human thought.

Philosophy asks the simple question: What is it all about?

He does not seek power - yet people follow him.

Philosophy is the self-correction by consciousness of its own initial excess of subjectivity.

The chief danger to philosophy is narrowness in the selection of evidence.

Science repudiates philosophy. In other words, it has never cared to justify its truth or explain its meaning.

He does not feel pity for himself - thus he can successfully develop.

The wise cares about everyone, and he becomes an example to all.

He does not praise himself - yet he is respectable.

Galen recognized, with some considerable puzzlement it seems, that Christians exhibited the virtues that he associated with the discipline of philosophy.

It is worth asking who decides what's an "obsession" and where it differs from meditation or the kind of deep dwelling on a subject we see in philosophy or the work of Robert Wilson, for instance?

Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.

I like the idea that neither makes any romantic move until their philosophies are aligned.