Quotes about Philosophy

For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure for the metaphysical journey.

I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.

Where did God come from? It's certainly more complicated than trying to figure out where, say, Barry Manilow was born.

What is God, and how do you believe in him - how do you not believe? It's a question the world continues to tussle with. People's beliefs get them in a lot of conflicts.

King-ian nonviolence is a way of thinking and living and is not confined to the work of social and systemic change.

The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important.

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

There are no simple congruities in life or history. The cult of happiness erroneously assumes them.

It is fair, therefore, to assume that growing rationality is a guarantee of man's growing morality.

Doamne, da-mi senitatea de a accepta lucrurile pe care nu le pot schimba, curajul de a schimba lucrurile pe care pot sa le schimb si intelepciunea de a sti sa le deosebesc.

As Socrates said when his wife first railed at him, and next threw a vessel of foul water upon him, "I thought when I heard the thunder, there would come rain

We have spent centuries of philosophy trying to solve the problem of evil, yet I believe the much more confounding and astounding issue is the problem of good. How do we account for so much gratuitous and sheer goodness in this world? Tackling this problem would achieve much better results.