Quotes about Philosophy
It's over, and can't be helped, and that's one consolation, as they always say in Turkey, when they cut the wrong man's head off.
— Charles Dickens
Man has learned to cope with all questions of importance without recourse to God as a working hypothesis.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Man is by his constitution a religious animal; atheism is against not only our reason, but our instincts.
— Edmund Burke
What good can come from meeting death with tears? If a man Is sorry for himself, he doubles death.
— Euripides
Suppose, gentleman, that man is not stupid.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Thus, as a result of heightened consciousness, a man feels as if it's all right if he's bad as long as he knows it- as though that were any consolation.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman.
— GK Chesterton
Obviously if any actions, even a lunatic's, can be causeless, determinism is done for. If the chain of causation can be broken for a madman, it can be broken for a man.
— GK Chesterton
To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man.
— GK Chesterton
When men cease to believe in God, they will believe in anything.
— GK Chesterton
Truth is superior to man s wisdom.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Thou seest how few be the things, the which if a man has at his command his life flows gently on and is divine.
— Marcus Aurelius