Quotes about Philosophy

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

There are no simple congruities in life or history. The cult of happiness erroneously assumes them.

It is fair, therefore, to assume that growing rationality is a guarantee of man's growing morality.

Doamne, da-mi senitatea de a accepta lucrurile pe care nu le pot schimba, curajul de a schimba lucrurile pe care pot sa le schimb si intelepciunea de a sti sa le deosebesc.

As Socrates said when his wife first railed at him, and next threw a vessel of foul water upon him, "I thought when I heard the thunder, there would come rain

We have spent centuries of philosophy trying to solve the problem of evil, yet I believe the much more confounding and astounding issue is the problem of good. How do we account for so much gratuitous and sheer goodness in this world? Tackling this problem would achieve much better results.

The good, the true, and the beautiful are always their own best argument for themselves—by themselves—and in themselves.

Human sympathy is the best and easiest way to open the heart space and to make us live inside our own bodies. God never intended most human beings to become philosophers or theologians, but God does want all humans to represent the very Sympathy and Empathy of God. And it's okay if it takes a while to get there. Our central message again bears repeating: God loves things by becoming them. We love God by continuing the same pattern.

Such a down-and-then-up perspective does not fit into our Western philosophy of progress, nor into our desire for upward mobility, nor into our religious notions of perfection or holiness.

God never intended most human beings to become philosophers or theologians, but God does want all humans to represent the very Sympathy and Empathy of God. And it's okay if it takes a while to get there.

Life moves first toward diversity and then toward union of that very diversity at ever higher levels. It is the old philosophical problem of "the one and the many

To those who cling to Anselm's understanding, I would say, as J. B. Phillips wrote many years ago, "Your God is too small.