Quotes about Philosophy
He takes men out of time and makes them feel eternity.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Well, sir, if things are real, they're there all the time." "Are they?" said the Professor; and Peter did not quite know what to say.
— CS Lewis
A lot of people don't give much thought to what they believe, and it's easy for them to hold what often are two conflicting ideas in their head at the same time.
— Lee Strobel
For what is time? ... Who can even in thought comprehend it, so as to utter a word about it? ... If no one asks me, I know: If I wish to explain it to one that asketh, I know not.
— St. Augustine
In the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was logic.
— GK Chesterton
I always adhered to the idea that God is time, or at least that His spirit is.
— Joseph Brodsky
This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time. Seneca Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
— Aristotle
He who know most grieves most for wasted time.
— Dante Alighieri
The Oversoul is before Time, and Time, Father of all else, is one of his children.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If there ever was a time that nothing existed, then nothing would exist now
— CS Lewis
Constantly contemplate the whole of time and the whole of substance, and consider that all individual things as to substance are a grain of a fig, and as to time the turning of a gimlet .
— Marcus Aurelius
He who follows reason in all things is both tranquil and active at the same time, and also cheerful and collected.
— Marcus Aurelius