Quotes about Philosophy
What a bummer it is to be a human being.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
What humanity owes to personalities like Buddha, Moses, and Jesus ranks for me higher than all the achievements of the enquiring and constructive mind.
- Albert Einstein
One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity.
- CS Lewis
The most useful truths are always universal, and unconnected with accidents and customs.
- Samuel Johnson
Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race.
- Victor Hugo
An important function of theology is to keep religion tied to reason and reason to religion. Both roles are of essential importance for humanity.
- Pope Benedict XVI
A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.
- George Bernard Shaw
I stopped and I thought, 'What would Jesus do?' So I didn't exist.
- Bo Burnham
I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
- Samuel Johnson
Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become us us if they were?
- CS Lewis
Ultimate seriousness in not without a dose of humor.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I am a confectionery-based existentialist.
- Bill Bailey