Quotes about Philosophy
For evil has no positive nature; but the loss of good has received the name "evil."
— St. Augustine
For if we were beasts, we should love the fleshly and sensual life, and this would be our sufficient good; and when it was well with us in respect of it, we should seek nothing beyond.
— St. Augustine
But to say there was a time when time was not, is as absurd as to say there was a man when there was no man.
— St. Augustine
I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are very wise and very beautiful; but I never read in either of them: "Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden."
— St. Augustine
I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are very wise and very beautiful; but I never read in either of them, "Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden."
— St. Augustine
The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Nothing which implies contradiction falls under the omnipotence of God.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident.
— Mary Baker Eddy
The truth of the Christian faith surpasses the capacity of reason.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
All sober inquirers after truth, ancient and modern, pagan and Christian, have declared that the happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.
— John Adams
Forever I shall be a stranger to myself. In psychology as in logic, there are truths but no truth.
— Albert Camus
If you didn't believe in objective truth, arguments would be just toys, or games, or jokes.
— Peter Kreeft