Quotes about Philosophy
And he wondered: What is the now?
- Frank Herbert
What was it St. Augustine said? she asked herself. "The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance." Yes—I am meeting more resistance lately.
- Frank Herbert
Moneo is trapped. He has learned that it is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.
- Frank Herbert
Know thyself? Dasein sensed then he couldn't know himself without dying. Death was the background against which life could know itself.
- Frank Herbert
Let us not bandy philosophical nonsense. Every question can be boiled down to the one: 'Why is there anything?' Every religious, business and governmental question has the single derivative: 'Who will exercise the power?
- Frank Herbert
I don't believe in ghosts or ESP or elves... or God. But I am spiritual in the sense that I get a lump in my throat when I listen to Vaughan Williams.
- Ricky Gervais
The ultimate determinant in the struggle now going on for the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas-a trial of spiritual resolve the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish and the ideals to which we are dedicated.
- Ronald Reagan
Sometimes when I'm faced with an atheist, I am tempted to invite him to the greatest gourmet dinner that one could ever serve, and when we have finished eating that magnificent dinner, to ask him if he believes there's a cook.
- Ronald Reagan
The rain is raining all around," Uncle Douglas quoted, "It rains on both the just and the unjust fellow. But more, it seems on the just than on the unjust, For the unjust hath the just's umbrella.
- Madeleine L'Engle
We look not at the things which are what you could call seen, but the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things which are not seen are eternal.
- Madeleine L'Engle
See? So is 0.428571.
- Madeleine L'Engle
Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being.
- Madeleine L'Engle