Quotes about Philosophy

Sometimes when I'm faced with an atheist, I am tempted to invite him to the greatest gourmet dinner that one could ever serve, and when we have finished eating that magnificent dinner, to ask him if he believes there's a cook.

The rain is raining all around," Uncle Douglas quoted, "It rains on both the just and the unjust fellow. But more, it seems on the just than on the unjust, For the unjust hath the just's umbrella.

We look not at the things which are what you could call seen, but the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things which are not seen are eternal.

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Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being.

your responsibility is simply to find how things work and those who are already successful then model their beliefs, behaviour, attitude, philosophies and actions and you'll get similar results

Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.

Not only had I got rid of the theology and the supernatural, but I had found the truth of evolution.

How gloomy would be these mansions of the dead to him who did not know that he shall never die; that what now acts shall continue its agency, and what now thinks shall think on for ever. Those that lie here stretched before us, the wise and the powerful of ancient times, warn us to remember the shortness of our present state; they were, perhaps, snatched away while they were busy, like us, in the choice of life.

To me,' said the Princess, 'the choice of life is become less important; I hope hereafter to think only on the choice of eternity.

I will venture to say, that in no writings whatever can be found more bark and steel for the mind, if I may use the expression; more that can brace and invigorate every manly and noble sentiment. No. 32 on patience, even under extreme misery, is wonderfully lofty, and as much above the rant of stoicism, as the Sun of Revelation is brighter than the twilight of Pagan philosophy.

Faith and reason are indeed complementary faculties that we use to think about the truth. When any winged creature (or mechanism) tries to fly on just one wing, it falls to the ground. In a similar way, when we human beings try to wing it with just one faculty, we crash.