Quotes about Philosophy
I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.
- Albert Schweitzer
Only fools and the dead are content.
- Francine Rivers
Nature does not make mistakes. Right and wrong are human categories.
- Frank Herbert
Remember your philosopher's doubts, Miles. Beware! The mind of the believer stagnates. It fails to grow outward into an unlimited, infinite universe.
- Frank Herbert
He mastered the inner world while holding the outer in contempt, and this led to catastrophe.
- Frank Herbert
That was the thing he resented about religion, Bickel thought—the way it appealed to emotion rather than intelligence.
- Frank Herbert
You took the universe as you found it and applied your principles where you could.
- Frank Herbert
She said the mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.
- Frank Herbert
the mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience
- Frank Herbert
The flesh surrenders itself, he thought. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and self, dealt with a few strange ideas, then submitted to the instruments of Time. What can we say of this? I occurred. I am not . . . yet, I occurred.
- Frank Herbert
life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.
- Frank Herbert
Your projections of logic onto all affairs is unnatural, but suffered to continue for its usefulness.
- Frank Herbert