Quotes about Philosophy
The only knowledge that is worthwhile, writes Northrop Frye. is the knowledge that leafs to wisdom, for knowledge without wisdom is a body without life.
— Leland Ryken
The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday—but never jam to-day ." "It must come sometimes to 'jam to-day,'" Alice objected. "No, it ca'n't," said the Queen. "It's jam every other day: to-day isn't any other day, you know
— Lewis Carroll
You might just as well say," added the Dormouse, who seemed to be talking in its sleep, "that 'I breathe when I sleep' is the same thing as 'I sleep when I breathe'!
— Lewis Carroll
It is necessary for the perfection of human society that there should be men who devote their lives to contemplation.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
— CS Lewis
There are scientists who will tell you that spirit, because it can't be measured, doesn't exist. Bollocks. It does exist.
— Sam Allardyce
Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.
— Epictetus
A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.
— George Bernard Shaw
Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has: it never comes to the aid of spiritual things.
— Martin Luther
I don't think of spiritual principle as a struggle. I think of life lived without spiritual principles as a struggle.
— Marianne Williamson
The philosophy of this world may be founded on facts, but its business is run on spiritual impressions and atmospheres.
— GK Chesterton