Quotes about Philosophy

Nor can it be argued that the time required is too short to be perceived; for though this may be the case in short distances, it cannot be so in distances so great as that which separates the East from the West.

Agere sequitur esse.

Reply to Objection 5: As was said above, the parts of the universe are ordered to each other, according as one acts on the other, and according as one is the end and exemplar of the other. But, as was said above, this can only happen to evil as joined to some good. Hence evil neither belongs to the perfection of the universe, nor does it come under the order of the same, except accidentally, that is, by reason of some good joined to it.

yet so that envy is not to be taken for a passion, but for a will resisting the good of another.

It was necessary for man's salvation that there should be a knowledge revealed by God besides philosophical science built up by human reason.

The existence of a prime mover- nothing can move itself; there must be a first mover. The first mover is called God.

Jean Paul Sartre: "I needed God . . . I reached out for religion, I longed for it, it was the remedy. Had it been denied me, I would have invented it myself.

The truth of the matter is this: false ideas about truth lead to false ideas about life.

One who claims to be a skeptic of one set of beliefs is actually a true believer in another set of beliefs." —PHILLIP E. JOHNSON

Any denial of truth presupposes truth, so the existence of truth is inescapable.

Socrates once said that the unexamined life is not worth living.3

When the Roman governor Pilate asked Jesus "What is truth?" nearly 2,000 years ago, he didn't wait for Jesus to respond.