Quotes about Philosophy
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
The existence of the moral sense is a signal that there is an ought, something other than, and transcendent over, what is. We will look again at this signal when we examine how.
— James Sire
Universes fashioned by words and concepts that work together to provide a more or less coherent frame of reference for all thought and action.
— James Sire
The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
— Edith Wharton
The whole truth?" Miss Bart laughed. "What is truth?
— Edith Wharton
As long ago as Pythagoras, man was taught that all things were in a state of flux, without end as without beginning, and must we still, after more than two thousand years, pretend to regard the universe as some gigantic toy manufactured in six days by a Superhuman Artisan, who is presently to destroy it at his pleasure?
— Edith Wharton
Man is by his constitution a religious animal; . . . atheism is against, not only our reason but our instincts.
— Edmund Burke