Quotes about Philosophy

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

The highest point of philosophy is to be both wise and simple; this is the angelic life.

The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.

A form of reason that in some way wished to strip itself of beauty would be diminished; it would be a blinded reason.

On one level, I am a massive joker and can't take anything seriously, but on the other hand, I'm incredibly serious and a deep thinker, so I have that dichotomy within me.

Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.

It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being.

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

Theologians have a great problem because they're seeking to speak about God. Since God is the ground of everything that is, there's a sense in which every human inquiry is grist to the theological mill. Obviously, no theologian can know everything.

The oldest theory of art belongs to the Greeks, who regarded art as an imitation (mimesis) of reality. The strength of that theory is that it explains the way in which art takes its materials from real life.

Part of my life's thesis is that we live in a culture that has bought into the patently silly idea that there is a divide between the secular world and the faith world.

Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so damn serious.