Quotes about Philosophy

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.

An atheist is someone who thinks (but doesn't believe) that nothing created everything.

Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.

A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.

Take away the paradox from a thinker and you have a professor.

Many people think… that the Christian commandments (for instance, loving your neighbor as yourself) are purposely made too strict—rather like the clock being put half an hour fast to prevent them getting up much too late in the morning.

All essential knowledge relates to existence, or only such knowledge as has an essential relationship to existence is essential knowledge.

Philosophy always requires something more, requires the eternal, the true, in contrast to which even the fullest existence as such is but a happy moment.

I'm man enough to tell you that I can't put my finger on exactly what my philosophy is right now, but I'm flexible.