Quotes about Philosophy

Summa theologiae

There is no tomorrow. There is only a planet turning on its axis, and a creature given to optimistic fancies.

There was never a wise saying that couldn't be made wiser by adding the words, "and vice-versa."

In many areas of understanding, none so much as in our understanding of God, we bump up against a simplicity so profound that we must assign complexities to it to comprehend it at all. It is mindful of how we paste decals to a sliding glass door to keep from bumping our nose against it.

What a unique treasure are the things we have learned to live without, for no thief can take them from us.

Who would endure life if it were not for the hope of death?

everything is foreordained and it was bound to happen anyway. But even so, it's nice to think one was an instrument used by predestination.

I wonder, said Miss Oliver, if humanity will be any happier because of aeroplanes. It seems to me that the sum of human happiness remains much the same from age to age, no matter how it may vary in distribution, and that all the 'many inventions' neither lessen nor increase it.

We all come back to God in these days of soul-sifting, said Gertrude to John Meredith. There have been many days in the past when I didn't believe in God—not as God—only as the impersonal Great First Cause of the scientists. I believe in Him now—I have to—there's nothing else to fall back on but God—humbly, starkly, unconditionally.

if I wasn't ME who'd I be?

Sometimes I wonder whether religion has been a curse or blessing to the world. It has much that is beautiful in it but it seems also to have caused hideous suffering

It is of no avail to know what is about to happen; for it is a sad thing to be grieved when grief can do no good.