Quotes about Philosophy

The ultimate concept in Greek philosophy is the idea of cosmos, of order; the first teaching in the Bible is the idea of creation. Translated into eternal principles, cosmos means fate, while creation means freedom. The essential meaning of creation is not the idea that the universe was created at a particular moment in time. The essential meaning of creation is, as Maimonides explained, the idea that the universe did not come about by necessity but as a result of freedom.

Philosophers do not expend their power and passion unless they themselves are affected. The soul only communes with itself when the heart is stirred.

philosophy of religion comes into being when both religion and philosophy claim to offer ideas about ultimate problems.

Philosophy of religion is involved in a polarity; like an ellipse it revolves around two foci: philosophy and religion.

The role of religion is to be a challenge to philosophy, not merely an object for examination.

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words, And this too, shall pass away. How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!

Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)

And this, too, shall pass away.' How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!

Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good. Let us therefore study the incidents of this, as philosophy to learn wisdom from.

Let us therefore study the incidents in this as philosophy to learn wisdom from and none of them as wrongs to be avenged....

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.