Quotes about Philosophy
This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it. John Adams, U.S. President
— George Washington
Francis Schaeffer's Escape from Reason.
— Sarah Young
Francis Schaeffer's Escape from Reason. To my great surprise and delight, that small book had answered questions I'd long before dismissed as unanswerable.
— Sarah Young
The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.
— Marcus Aurelius
The laws of thought are also the laws of things: of things in the remotest space and the remotest time.
— CS Lewis
Ye cannot know eternal reality by a definition. Time itself, and all the acts and events that fill time are the definition, and it must be lived.
— CS Lewis
What a pity if we do not live this short time according to the laws of the long time,--the eternal laws!
— Henry David Thoreau
Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree.
— Thomas Jefferson
It is wise to seek immortality for time defeats all other ambitions.
— Vernon Howard
Should this my firm persuasion of the soul's immortality prove to be a mere delusion, it is at least a pleasing delusion, and I will cherish it to my last breath.
— Cicero
For a courageous man cannot die dishonorably, a man who has attained the consulship cannot die before his time, a philosopher cannot die wretchedly.
— Cicero
I'm talking about intellectually and emotionally challenging, but at the same time it's actually not that challenging. So there's this dichotomy.
— Marina Abramovic