Quotes about Philosophy

I wasn't looking for religion; I was looking for a world view.

What you believe about who you are, where you came from, affects your whole worldview.

I am totally convinced the Christian faith is the most coherent worldview around.

The Soul's Upward Yearning by Fr. Robert Spitzer, the intergalactically smart Jesuit who once served as president of Gonzaga University and who now directs the Magis Center on matters of faith, reason, and science,

Summa theologiae

There is no tomorrow. There is only a planet turning on its axis, and a creature given to optimistic fancies.

There was never a wise saying that couldn't be made wiser by adding the words, "and vice-versa."

In many areas of understanding, none so much as in our understanding of God, we bump up against a simplicity so profound that we must assign complexities to it to comprehend it at all. It is mindful of how we paste decals to a sliding glass door to keep from bumping our nose against it.

What a unique treasure are the things we have learned to live without, for no thief can take them from us.

Who would endure life if it were not for the hope of death?

everything is foreordained and it was bound to happen anyway. But even so, it's nice to think one was an instrument used by predestination.

I wonder, said Miss Oliver, if humanity will be any happier because of aeroplanes. It seems to me that the sum of human happiness remains much the same from age to age, no matter how it may vary in distribution, and that all the 'many inventions' neither lessen nor increase it.