Quotes about Philosophy

And this activity alone would seem to be loved for its own sake; for nothing arises from it apart from the contemplating, while from practical activities we gain more or less apart from the action. And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.

It is of itself that the divine thought thinks (since it is the most excellent of things), and its thinking is a thinking on thinking.

A man married to the right woman will be happy. A man married to the wrong woman will be a philosopher.

Law is mind without reason.

Philosophy is the science which considers truth.

It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?

There are ultimately only two possible adjustments to life; one is to suit our lives to principles; the other is to suit principles to our lives. If we do not live as we think, we soon begin to think as we live. The method of adjusting moral principles to the way men live is just a perversion of the order of things.

Science is not wisdom.

To deny the necessity or value of metaphysics is to assert a metaphysical principle, just as to say a religion must be without dogmas is to assert a dogma.

Abstraction is the condition of the science of metaphysics, but in no way is its content.

Since evil is nothing positive, there can be no principle of evil. It has no meaning expect in reference to something good.

THOSE who start with the pagan philosophy of sex must face life as a descent. Associated with a growing old, there is a loss of physical energy and the horrible perspective of death. The Christian philosophy of love, on the contrary, implies an ascension. The body may grow older, but the Spirit grows younger, and love often becomes more intense.