Quotes about Philosophy
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
- Aristotle
There are 100 different doors to come into the conservative movement. You can disagree with 99 of them, as long as you agree on one: more-limited government.
- Grover Norquist
I studied philosophy, religious studies, and English. My training was writing four full-length novels and hiring an editor to tear them apart. I had enough money to do that, and then rewriting and rewriting and rewriting.
- Ted Dekker
All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
A great part of life consists in contemplating what we cannot cure.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
One writer referred to the problem of pain as "the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart.
- Lee Strobel
The only knowledge that is worthwhile, writes Northrop Frye. is the knowledge that leafs to wisdom, for knowledge without wisdom is a body without life.
- Leland Ryken
The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday—but never jam to-day ." "It must come sometimes to 'jam to-day,'" Alice objected. "No, it ca'n't," said the Queen. "It's jam every other day: to-day isn't any other day, you know
- Lewis Carroll
You might just as well say," added the Dormouse, who seemed to be talking in its sleep, "that 'I breathe when I sleep' is the same thing as 'I sleep when I breathe'!
- Lewis Carroll
It is necessary for the perfection of human society that there should be men who devote their lives to contemplation.
- St. Thomas Aquinas