Quotes about Philosophy
Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; Our meddling intellect Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things: We murder to dissect.
— William Wordsworth
The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self-mastery.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
The only thing that isn't worthless: to live this life out truthfully and rightly, And be patience with those who don't.
— Marcus Aurelius
You will attract to yourself people who harmonize with your own philosophy of life, whether you wish it or not.
— Napoleon Hill
The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Moral relativism has a reputation for being compassionate, caring and humane, but it is an extremely useful philosophy for tyrants.
— Peter Kreeft
Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing.
— Victor Hugo
A Christian philosophy of literature begins with the same agenda of issues that any philosophy of literature addresses. Its distinctive feature is that it relates these issues to the Christian faith.
— Leland Ryken
'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
— Dag Hammarskjold
We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism--the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good.
— CS Lewis
Isn't it strange that ... people build walls to keep an enemy out, and there's only one part of the world and one philosophy where they have to build walls to keep their people in
— Ronald Reagan
Any person can achieve greatness if they understand the philosophy of success and the steps required to achieve it.
— Andrew Carnegie