Quotes about Philosophy
An atheist is someone who thinks (but doesn't believe) that nothing created everything.
- Ray Comfort
Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
- St. Jerome
Take away the paradox from a thinker and you have a professor.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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.
- Soren Kierkegaard
All essential knowledge relates to existence, or only such knowledge as has an essential relationship to existence is essential knowledge.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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.
- Malcolm X
You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.
- Marcus Aurelius
Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.
- Marcus Aurelius
How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life
- Marcus Aurelius
If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now.
- Marcus Aurelius