Quotes about Philosophy
This does not mean that the knowledge of the world, church history, theology, philosophy, and the Scriptures is without value. Such knowledge can be very useful.[105] But it is not central. Theological competence and a high-voltage intellect alone do not qualify a person to serve in God's house.
— Frank Viola
In philosophy, the opposite of truth is error; in Scripture, the opposite of truth is a lie.
— Brennan Manning
We seem to have a fear of empty spaces. The philosopher Spinoza called this a horror vacui. We want to fill up what is empty. Our lives stay very full. And when we are not blinded by busyness, we fill our inner space with guilt about things of the past or worries about things to come.
— Henri Nouwen
Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return to them. Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society.
— Henry David Thoreau
Most of the luxuries, and many of the so called comforts of life, are not only indispensable, but positive hinderances to the elevation of mankind. With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have ever lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor.
— Henry David Thoreau
In my opinion, the sun was made to light worthier toil than this.
— Henry David Thoreau
I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.
— Henry David Thoreau
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, to life itself, than this incessant business.
— Henry David Thoreau
We live a short period of time in this world, but we live it according to the laws of eternal life.
— Henry David Thoreau
As for Doing-good...I have tried it fairly, and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.
— Henry David Thoreau
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
— Henry David Thoreau
Being is the great explainer.
— Henry David Thoreau