Quotes about Philosophy

The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of pleasure.

All this I tested by wisdom, saying, “I resolve to be wise.” But it was beyond me.

“Futility of futilities,” says the Teacher. “Everything is futile!”

So they took Paul and brought him to the Areopagus, where they asked him, “May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting?

Now all the Athenians and foreigners who lived there spent their time doing nothing more than hearing and articulating new ideas.

If I fought wild beasts in Ephesus for human motives, what did I gain? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”

See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, which are based on human tradition and the spiritual forces of the world rather than on Christ.

While a case can be made for intelligent design, I can't figure out why some Christians are so thrilled about that possibility. First of all, it doesn't prove there's a God. If anything, intelligent design lends support to some form of pantheism that defines God as immanent within nature.

The wise are wise only because they love. And the foolish are foolish only because they think they can understand love.

Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning.

LIVE. If you live, god will live with you. If you refuse to run his risks, he'll retreat to that distant heaven and be merely a subject for philosophical speculation.

I was not I, I was nothing - and that seemed to me quite marvelous.