Quotes about Philosophy
The materialist thinks me a slave because I am not allowed to believe in determinism. I think the materialist a slave because he is not allowed to believe in fairies.
— GK Chesterton
Opinion involves belief (for without belief in what we opine we cannot have an opinion), and in the brutes though we often find imagination we never find belief.
— Aristotle
For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the cause of truth, but its condition.
— CS Lewis
Every powerful movement has had its philosophy which has gripped the mind, fired the imagination and captured the devotion of its adherents.
— John Stott
Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist.
— CS Lewis
Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
— CS Lewis
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
— Albert Einstein
My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
— Ayn Rand
Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam.
— John Milton
What I am trying to do is to unmuddle the metaphysical.
— Wayne Dyer
Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom.
— Albert Camus
What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense.
— Mark Twain