Quotes about Philosophy
I find the whole idea of religion overwhelming and frightening and not for me.
— Cody Fern
I'm not Buddhist, but I am drawn to it because it seems the most beneficial of organised religions and the most compassionate.
— Toni Collette
The gospel is not a philosophy of repression, as so many regard it. It is a plan of freedom that gives discipline to appetite and direction to behavior.
— Gordon Hinckley
When you see people your own age afflicted and experiencing life-threatening illnesses, I think it prompts you to apply to yourself the philosophy, 'I want to do the best I know how to do every day.'
— Thomas Monson
The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.
— William James
A horse walks into a bar, and the barman says "Why the long face?". The horse replies: "I'm deeply troubled by the anthropomorphic aspects of my existence and the extent to which I am now protected by law."
— Bill Bailey
Life is very difficult. One of the most ancient of religious ideas that emerges everywhere, I would say, is that life is essentially suffering.
— Jordan Peterson
If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
— CS Lewis
If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.
— St. Augustine
Is the human race a joke? Was it devised and patched together in a dull time when there was nothing important to do?
— Mark Twain
Whom God has put asunder, why should man put together?
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Live in the fields, and God will give you lectures on natural philosophy every day.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson