Quotes about Philosophy
Augustine was right when he said that we love the truth when it enlightens us, but we hate it when it convicts us.
- Norman Geisler
Contrary to what is being taught in many public schools, truth is not relative but absolute. If something is true, it's true for all people, at all times, in all places.
- Norman Geisler
Socrates once said that the unexamined life is not worth living.
- Norman Geisler
Reality has grown old and gone senile; after all, it is definitely subject to the same laws as every living organism—it ages.
- Olga Tokarczuk
My life's harvest is not the building material for anything, neither in my time, now, nor in any other, never.
- Olga Tokarczuk
There is only one thing we cannot have—eternal life, and, by God, whence did that concept come into our heads, that idea of being immortal?
- Olga Tokarczuk
Or to a different law that hasn't been demonstrated and that we haven't even thought of yet that says that you can doubly not exist in the same place?
- Olga Tokarczuk
On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you I the best place for the next moment.
- Oprah Winfrey
What Socrates called the "unexamined life" that is "not worth living" now seems to be the life more people have slipped into than ever before.
- Os Guinness
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be. WILLIAM HAZLITT
- Os Guinness
The story is told of Socrates walking through the market in Athens, with its groaning abundance of options, and saying to himself, "Who would have thought that there could be so many things that I can do without?"4
- Os Guinness