Quotes about Philosophy

There will always be those little minds who, out of vanity or intellectual display, will attempt to destroy faith in the very foundations of life.

The examined life: nothing is more futile or counterproductive. The active, joyous, spontaneous life: that is what one should aim for.

Maybe this world is another planet's hell.

Most of life is just a preparation for getting ready to be dead for a very long period of time.

The olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long.

Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy.

Others apart sat on a hill retir'd,In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high of Providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost.

The first and wisest of them all professed to know this only, that he nothing knew.

Relativism, as we saw in the previous chapter, undermines that effort. It kidnaps the happy handmaiden of truth and makes her serve the pride and pleasure of pragmatists. Relativists don't pursue truth. They make the denial of truth serve them.

Edwards's piety continued on in the revivalist tradition, his theology continued on in academic Calvinism, but there were no successors to his God-centered worldview or his profoundly theological philosophy. The disappearance of Edwards's perspective in American Christian history has been a tragedy. Mark Noll

Edwards believed his Biblical theology was, in fact, a true rendering of reality, and therefore could stand confidently in the marketplace of philosophical ideas and give an account of itself--which in his hands it would do.

Epistemology models ontology.