It Philosophy Quotes

A philosophy may explain difficult things, but has no power to change them. The gospel, the story of Jesus' life, promises change.

Truth as such is not a particularly important concept in naturalistic philosophy.

All the most prominent Darwinists proclaim naturalistic philosophy when they think it safe to do so.

Because of the failure of religion to offer satisfying answers to an increasing number of people, it's time for philosophy to address forcefully these questions that everybody is wondering about.

Almost everybody thinks about philosophy, even if they don't realize it's philosophy and even if they have no sense of the difficulty of the problems, the array of possible answers.

From the beginning philosophy sought for The order behind the disorder Thales sipped cheap wine And in this did divine: "Why it's nothing at all but pure water!"

Darwinism is not merely a support for naturalistic philosophy: it is a product of naturalistic philosophy.

The man, who has begun to live more seriously within, begins to live more simply without.

Those who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men.

Philosophy is an act of living.

Plato conceived of philosophy as necessarily gregarious rather than solitary. The exposure of presumptions is best done in company, the more argumentative the better.

The Kantian philosophy is no more than at best a half-secularized version of such a theocratic ethics, with "Reason" in the place of God. This does not amount to much more than a change of names.

Before you condemn me my friends, I suggest you look deep inside you. For good and evil exists in us all.

It's never too late to get a new design, and if you wanna compete you gotta visualize.

Zen is influenced by Daoism, which is not so much a nature-religion in the animistic sense as a nature-philosophy in a cosmic sense.

Why bear malice? Just let it go. So what of pride? It will swallow you whole.

Taken everything I've got, all I've got's this sunny afternoon.

A religion without mystics is a philosophy.

Surviving, that's my plan.

Plastic man got no brain, plastic man don't feel no pain.

The intellectual controls the spiritual, the animal respects the natural.

On the surface I'm a mild mannered person, that's until you scratch the animal inside.

What are we living for? Two roomed apartment on the second floor?

A restless spirit who can't reach his goal, can't find a home until I've found my soul.

Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of.

Parent hard, play hard. That's my philosophy.

I close my eyes and feel the universe within me.

Goods gone bad, but right is wrong, and I don't know which side I'm on lately.

To the field we are scattered from the day we are born to grow wild and sleep rough til from the earth we are torn.

A man should have a farm or a mechanical craft for his culture. We must have a basis for our higher accomplishments, our delicate entertainments of poetry and philosophy, in the work of our hands.

Philosophy is like a normal personal organizer, but it's smaller than a matchbox.

We live ruins amid ruins.

Let none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo or Socrates by village scales.

The chief value of the rule lies in preventing an immediate and obvious but inferior good from replacing a longer-range, less obvious but superior one.

Life is not logic, life is not philosophy. Life is a dance, a song, a celebration! It is more like love and less like logic.

God is a synergetic experience. Science can never reveal it, philosophy can never come to it - only a poetic approach, a very passive, very loving approach, can.

They opposed brute force to reason and philosophy, and battalions of foreign mercenaries to ideas. As if ideas were to be impaled on bayonets!

I learn that you can work really hard and still have a great time. That is part of Russell Crowe philosophy.

Be good and honest to your fellow man and try to do something good for somebody.

It is expedient that there should be gods, and, since it is expedient, let us believe that gods exist.

If the art is concealed, it succeeds.

He loves to hide, but only if you take the time to find him. And while I suspect that's true for most people, only a retard or a kid would admit it.

A scientist first has to presuppose any theory based on available relevant data. In terms of such presupposition, a scientist begins his journey of scientific exploration as a philosopher.

Being a philosopher requires a lot of thinking and no action. Being a model requires a lot of action and no thinking.

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made ...

What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.[Lincoln's maxim and philosophy]

But I don't think we shall quarrel about a word - the subject of our inquiry is too important for that.

The salvation of man is through love and in love

We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.

Make thought a whirlwind.