Quotes about Philosophy

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.

You do not understand even life. How can you understand death?

If you do not believe in a personal God, the question: 'What is the purpose of life?' is unaskable and unanswerable.

God is either good and not all powerful, or He is powerful and not all good. You can't have it both ways.

Seventeenth-century deism constructed a God who created a universe and then walked away to leave it running according to its natural laws and man's devices. Many people today are practical deists.

Do not think about sin, he thought. There are enough problems now without sin. Also I have no understanding of it.

You paid some way for everything that was any good. I paid my way into enough things that I liked, so that I had a good time. Either you paid by learning about them, or by experience, or by taking chances, or by money. Enjoying living was learning to get your money's worth. The world was a good place to buy in. It seemed like a fine philosophy. In five years, I though, it will seem just as silly as all the other fine philosophies I've had.

But why must all the operations in life be performed without an anesthetic?

Don't think about that either. If you don't think about it, it doesn't exist. The hell it doesn't. But that's the system I'm going on, he thought.

What a person thinks is determined by how a person thinks. This is true whether the conclusion at which a person arrives is accurate, safe, and profitable — or stupid and vicious.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.