Quotes about Philosophy
I have always felt I lived on the high seas, threatened, at the heart of a royal happiness.
- Albert Camus
For surely to be wise is the most desirable thing in all the world.
- Cicero
If the Wise be the happy man... he must be virtuous too; for, without virtue, happiness cannot be. This then is the true scope of all academical emulation.
- Thomas Jefferson
Jesus was the most active resister known to history. His was nonviolence par excellence.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Even David Hume, one of history most famous skeptics, said it's just barely possible that God exists.
- Peter Kreeft
...one may say anything about the history of the world - anything that might enter the most disordered imagination. The only thing one can't say is that it's rational.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
I'm interested in the history of ideas and how these ideas take on flesh and influence culture, and the church.
- Kevin Vanhoozer
The more one reads poetry, the less tolerant one becomes of any sort of verbosity, be that in political or philosophical discourse, be that in history, social studies or the art of fiction.
- Joseph Brodsky
We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.
- Epictetus
Each moment that passes changes you...You can't even own yourself. How can you ever hope to own anyone or anything else.
- Bruce Lee
The atheist has no hope.
- James Freeman Clarke
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.
- Edmund Burke