Quotes about Philosophy
The question: 'is the Euclidean geometry true?' has no significance for Poincaré, for these is no such thing as one geometry being more true than another.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
The mathematical method is disinterested in the efficient cause and the final cause or the goodness of a thing and it should not be so disinterested.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
There are ultimately only two possible adjustments in life: one is to suit our lives to principles; the other is to suit principles to our lives. "If we do not live as we think, we soon begin to think as we live.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
There would be a course on the philosophy of history; another year the philosophy of Marxism, another the philosophy of religion, the philosophy of science, etc. All of these were presented in the light of the thought of St. Thomas.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
— Aristotle
The highest point of philosophy is to be both wise and simple; this is the angelic life.
— St. John Chrysostom
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.
— Walt Whitman
A form of reason that in some way wished to strip itself of beauty would be diminished; it would be a blinded reason.
— Pope Benedict XVI
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.
— Shura
Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being.
— George Washington
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.
— Albert Schweitzer