Quotes about Philosophy
In me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.
- Samuel Beckett
If by Godot I had meant God I would have said God, and not Godot.
- Samuel Beckett
If I was dead, I wouldn't know I was dead. That's the only thing I have against death. I want to enjoy my death.
- Samuel Beckett
Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
- Samuel Beckett
Words are but the signs of ideas.
- Samuel Johnson
Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.
- Samuel Johnson
I am not yet so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.
- Samuel Johnson
He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.
- Samuel Johnson
He takes men out of time and makes them feel eternity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Well, sir, if things are real, they're there all the time." "Are they?" said the Professor; and Peter did not quite know what to say.
- CS Lewis
A lot of people don't give much thought to what they believe, and it's easy for them to hold what often are two conflicting ideas in their head at the same time.
- Lee Strobel
For what is time? ... Who can even in thought comprehend it, so as to utter a word about it? ... If no one asks me, I know: If I wish to explain it to one that asketh, I know not.
- St. Augustine