Quotes about Philosophy

In the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was logic.

I always adhered to the idea that God is time, or at least that His spirit is.

This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time. Seneca Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

He who know most grieves most for wasted time.

The Oversoul is before Time, and Time, Father of all else, is one of his children.

If there ever was a time that nothing existed, then nothing would exist now

Constantly contemplate the whole of time and the whole of substance, and consider that all individual things as to substance are a grain of a fig, and as to time the turning of a gimlet .

He who follows reason in all things is both tranquil and active at the same time, and also cheerful and collected.

We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.

Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know; but whatever the time gives us in which we live, we should therefore be content.

If there ever was a time when absolutely nothing existed, all there could possibly be now is nothing.

Life is deep, but our current politics is shallow. The history of this country is like the stuff of great art and philosophy, while our current politics is more on the level of gossip magazines. It is shallow and tawdry, an unworthy vehicle for grappling with the meaning of what we are going through. We need to think more deeply if we're to create more powerfully. We need to focus on a broader understanding of the American story and commit ourselves to rewriting it.