Quotes about Philosophy
Even if our contact with eternal beings is slight, none the less because of its surpassing value this knowledge is a greater pleasure than our knowledge of everything around us.
- Aristotle
baseness that does not possess its own starting point [or principle] is always less harmful than that which does possess it, and intellect is such a starting point. It
- Aristotle
If humans could not be rid of religion, it was argued, then let them at least not be harmed by it.
- Arthur C. Clarke
What can we know? What are we all? Poor silly half-brained things peering out at the infinite, with the aspirations of angels and the instinct of beasts.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?
- Soren Kierkegaard
But one must not think ill of the paradox, for the paradox is the passion of thought, and the thinker without the paradox is like the lover without passion: a mediocre fellow.
- Soren Kierkegaard
I easily sink into mere absorption of what other minds have done, and should like a whole life for that alone.
- George Eliot
I want to live out principles that became a part of my life in my 40s, 50s, and 60s. One principle is the universality of freedom.
- George W. Bush
Every religion, every philosophy, every individual outlook on life tells a story of reality.
- Greg Koukl
It is necessary not to be Christian to appreciate the beauty and significance of the life of Christ.
- Henry David Thoreau
Having reached the term of his natural life"; Mwould it not be truer to say, Having reached the term of his unnatural life?
- Henry David Thoreau
We lay on our backs looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when he made life so sad and disinclined.
- Jack Kerouac