Quotes about Philosophy
Philosophy is a game with objectives and no rules. Mathematics is a game with rules and no objectives.
— Anonymous
I call myself 'Christ-leaning,' but that's primarily psychological.
— Pete Holmes
Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.
— Mortimer Adler
The most compelling evidence for God's existence is Christ. If God does not exist, then Christ was the biggest fool who ever lived.
— Peter Kreeft
The unbearableness of the future is easier to face than that of the present if only because human foresight is much more destructive than anything that the future can bring about.
— Joseph Brodsky
I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.
— Albert Schweitzer
Only fools and the dead are content.
— Francine Rivers
Nature does not make mistakes. Right and wrong are human categories.
— Frank Herbert
Remember your philosopher's doubts, Miles. Beware! The mind of the believer stagnates. It fails to grow outward into an unlimited, infinite universe.
— Frank Herbert
He mastered the inner world while holding the outer in contempt, and this led to catastrophe.
— Frank Herbert
That was the thing he resented about religion, Bickel thought—the way it appealed to emotion rather than intelligence.
— Frank Herbert
You took the universe as you found it and applied your principles where you could.
— Frank Herbert