Quotes about Philosophy
Repression is the only lasting philosophy. The dark deference of fear and slavery, my friend, will keep the dogs obedient to the whip, as long as this roof shuts out the sky.
— Charles Dickens
Hope founded upon a human being, a man-made philosophy or any institution is always misplaced... because these things are unreliable and fleeting.
— Charles Stanley
My philosophy? Have a laugh for as long as you can and don't get run over. Or stabbed.
— Ricky Gervais
Optimism is a philosophy based on the belief that basically life is good, that, in the long run, the good in life overbalances the evil.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes and compel it to inquire about life and standards and goods and evils.
— Cicero
I refuse to believe that we're only here to live and die.
— Amy Grant
Probabilities direct the conduct of the wise man.
— Cicero
American life is builded ... upon that fundamental philosophy announced by the Savior nineteen centuries ago ... [It] can not survive with the defense of Cain, "Am I my brother's keeper?
— Herbert Hoover
Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Much of the philosophy of religious education has been based upon a false premise, and perhaps many have missed the essence of Christian experience, having had religious training take its place.
— Billy Graham
Once someone asked me, "What do you want to be your epitaph?" So I said, "Paulo Coelho died when he was alive.
— Paulo Coelho
Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
— Epicurus