Quotes about Philosophy
Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience.
— CS Lewis
The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I hold the precepts of Jesus as delivered by Himself, to be the most pure, benevolent and sublime which have ever been preached to man.
— Thomas Jefferson
A good man regards the root; he fixes the root, and ail else flows out of it. The root is filial piety; the fruit brotherly love.
— Confucius
Christianity is the greatest intellectual system the mind of man has ever touched.
— Francis Schaeffer
I've long stopped worrying about who invented whom - God man or man God.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.
— Epicurus
My political opinions lean more and more to Anarchy (philosophically understood, meaning abolition of control not whiskered men with bombs).
— JRR Tolkien
When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
— GK Chesterton
The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.
— Deepak Chopra
An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
— Victor Hugo
I think, therefore I doubt.
— Victor Hugo