Charles M. Schulz Quotes

Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.

Everyone finds justification for his or her views in logic and analysis, but a personal philosophy often emerges from some archaic part of the mind, an early idea of how the world should be.

I believe that it's better to have a conviction, believe strongly in something, and then the convictions create a style that reflects your mentality.

People are always trying to draw simplistic dialectics that can capture things.

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

You have your ideology and I have mine.

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.

I hate bumper stickers, you can't sum anything up. All you do is paint yourself in some caricaturist corner.

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

The premise of my book is that everyone is a bit ideological to some extent. Everyone comes from a ideological perspective.

To be a fashion critic is easy because you just say, 'I love it, I hate it,' but life is more than love and hate.

I'm not 100 percent anybody's ideological prism.

It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action.

… steer clear of bogus simplicity

I often sit back and say, 'Be sure about what I believe.'

I just believe what I believe.

There are only two kinds of people in the modern world who know what they are after. One, quite frankly, is the Communist. The other, equally frankly, is the convinced Christian. The rest of the world are amiable nonentities.

I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

Not to have a correct political point of view is like having no soul.

there are two kinds of people in this world : those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world and those who are smart enough to know better.

Since ideology is part of the human personality, it deserves a place in the kingdom of eternal truths.

What is your religion? I mean-not what you know about religion but the belief that helps you most?

Doctrine does matter.

Philosophy is not in a state of external reflection on other domains, but in a state of active and internal alliance with them, and it is neither more abstract nor more difficult.

The fact that I have an ideology, however, doesn't mean I'm indoctrinated.