Quotes about Philosophy

I have written the little work that follows . . . in the role of one who strives to raise his mind to the contemplation of God and one who seeks to understand what he believes.

Yes, there was an element of abstraction and unreality in misfortune. But when an abstraction starts to kill you, you have to get to work on it.

It is clear that there is some difference between ends: some ends are energeia [energy], while others are products which are additional to the energeia.

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

Sin makes us fools. We are easily deceived, attracted to hollow and deceptive philosophy, and enticed by arguments that lead us away from Christ. Sin blinds us to our sin!

I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me: I summed up all things in a phrase, all existence in an epigram: whatever I touched I made beautiful

Lord Henry had not yet come in. He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.

Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude towards life. You are not quite old enough to do that.

Mere words.. Was there anything so real as words?

The supreme vice is shallowness. Whatever is realised is right.

Lord Henry had not come in yet. He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.