It Philosophy Quotes

The whole interest of my reason, whether speculative or practical, is concentrated in the three following questions: What can I know? What should I do? What may I hope? (Critique of Pure Reason

The question of being is the darkest in all philosophy.

perhaps the problem of evil is a human problem, one of an egotistical mind-set, an anthropocentric bent in our thinking and perspective.

At life's most significant moments, we are always alone

It is not enought to be busy, so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

And what is it, according to Plato, that philosophy is supposed to do? Nothing less than to render violence to our sense of ourselves and our world, our sense of ourselves in the world. (p. 40)

Keenness is dangerous but also rebirth of thought and mind. Complacency is the death of ideals. Always stay keen.

I tell you: one must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: you still have chaos in yourselves.

Time is the moving image of eternity.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby becomes a monster.

The belief that personality is mysterious and irreducible has no scientific warrant, and is accepted chiefly because it is flattering to our human self esteem.

...what is the use of making everybody rich if the rich themselves are miserable?

A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty

I'm not asking you to do your best. I'm asking you to do your job." -Dagny Taggart

Life in accordance with intellect is best and pleasantest, since this, more than anything else, constitutes humanity.

Happiness seems to depend on leisure, because we work to have leisure, and wage war to live in peace.

It is impossible to conceive anything at all in the world, or even out of it, which can be taken as good without qualification, except a good will.

Nothing forbids man to enjoy himself, save grim and gloomy superstition

If it were necessary either to do wrong or to suffer it, I should choose to suffer rather than do it.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

The good which every man, who follows after virtue, desires for himself he will also desire for other men...

The gentleman understands what is moral. The small man understands what is profitable.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

...suffering and freedom have their limits...those limits are very near together.

Scriptural doctrine contains not abstruse speculation or philosophic reasoning, but very simple matters able to be understood by the most sluggish mind.

The feminine section of the proletarian army is of particularly great significance... the success of a revolution depends on the extent to which women take part in it.

The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not

Falsity consists in the privation of knowledge, which inadequate, fragmentary, or confused ideas involve.

Of man there is little here: therefore do their women masculinize themselves. For only he who is man enough will save the woman in woman.

The purpose of the state is really freedom.

Do not all charms fly / At the mere touch of cold philosophy?

Is the world really beautified by the fact that man thinks it beautiful? He has humanized it, that is all.

History is not like some individual person, which uses men to achieve its ends. History is nothing but the actions of men in pursuit of their ends.

There is more things in heaven and earth...than are dreamt of by your philosophy.

There are more things in heaven and earth...than are dreamt of by your philosophy.

The order and connection of ideas in the same as the order and connection of things

The object of the idea constituting the human mind is the body

(When asked what he thought of Western civilization): 'I think it would be a good idea.

But this payment goes well beyond my generosity, " the monk responded."Don’t say that again. Life might be listening, and give you less the next time.

There have been two great narcotics in European civilisation: Christianity and alcohol.

Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?

Our way is upward, from the species across to the super-species. But the degenerate mind which says ‘All for me’ is a horror to us.

I give the truths of to-morrow.""I prefer the mistakes of today.

With the rise of self- awareness, all separatisms cease to exist - all delusions cease to exist.

The human body is not necessarily a human being.

For though men be ignorant, yet they are men

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire the other is to get it.

Self- reliance is the greatest of all virtues my friend.

Only you can save yourself.

Guys, close your eyes.Imagine you have a daughter. Imagine she is dating a guy like you. Did you smile? No?Then change.