Quotes about Philosophy
Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of madness?
— Elie Wiesel
Life belongs to man, but the meaning of life is beyond him.
— Elie Wiesel
How do I find God?' you ask. I do not know how, but I do know where-in my fellow man.
— Elie Wiesel
Man walks the moon but his soul remains riveted to earth. Once upon a time it was the opposite.
— Elie Wiesel
Everything had been said. The pros and the cons. I would choose the living or the dead. Day or night.
— Elie Wiesel
most of us turn to religion for our ethics because we don't know where else to find them.
— Elie Wiesel
Once people stop believing in the God of the Bible, they don't believe in nothing--they begin to believe in anything.
— Alistair Begg
Thomas Aquinas and John Calvin concur on the claim that there is a kind of natural knowledge of God (and anything on which Calvin and Aquinas are in accord is something to which we had better pay careful attention).
— Alvin Plantinga
The sensus divinitatis is a belief-producing faculty (or power, or mechanism) that under the right conditions produces belief that isn't evidentially based on other beliefs.
— Alvin Plantinga
To show that there are natural processes that produce religious belief does nothing, so far, to discredit it; perhaps God designed us in such a way that it is by virtue of those processes that we come to have knowledge of him.
— Alvin Plantinga
If my belief in other minds is rational, so is my belief in God.
— Alvin Plantinga
God creates a world containing evil and has a good reason for doing so.
— Alvin Plantinga