Quotes about Philosophy

Behind every civilization lies a vision and a worldview, and none is greater or more lasting than the strength of its vision.

God is his own best apologist.

When cultures reject God, they cut themselves off from the ultimate ground of reality

What a mystery, what an absurdity if not true, and if true what a wonder!

In a world congenial to skepticism, skeptics love to play the skeptic's card nonchalantly as if it were the royal flush that trumped all other cards and could not be countered. For many, it has become the skeptics' way of hanging out a "Do Not Disturb" sign. Simply raise a skeptical objection and retire from all argument. But of course, the simplest response is to turn such skepticism back on itself.

Thinking Christians think in believing and they believe in thinking.

Biography can overwhelm philosophy in the best of us.

Life is much more than reason, so it can never be captured and explained by reason alone—crucial and valuable though reason is. Apply reason as carefully and systematically as you like, and there will always be things it cannot explain, things that simply will not fit into its categories, however hard you push, press and pull.

For all of us, the time is short and the span of life is brief On top of that, our real human problem, the Stoic philosopher Seneca said in a direct rebuke to the modern illusion, is not just that life is short but that we waste so much of it-so that life ceases for us "just when we are getting ready for it."35 But

For any follower of Jesus Christ who follows this path on the quest for meaning, the statement is true: A Christian thinks in believing and believes in thinking.

Christians," as that crusty old philosopher Bertrand Russell used to quip, "would sooner die than think—in fact they do.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.