Quotes about Philosophy
If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another name?
- Graham Greene
The Greeks understood that mind and body must develop in harmounious proportions to produce a creative intelligence.
- John F. Kennedy
The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
There are those men who say to repay evil with kindness. But I say, how then are we to repay kindness? Repay kindness with kindness, but repay evil with justice.
- Confucius
Confucius said the doctrine of the mean was the highest virtue, and rare among men. The Buddhists call it the middle way. Aristotle saw moderation as the essence of virtue. I say moderation in all things, even moderation.
- Jay Parini
I've nothing, am nothing, shall be nothing, and yet I take nothing.
- Elias Canetti
Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of madness?
- Elie Wiesel
Life belongs to man, but the meaning of life is beyond him.
- Elie Wiesel
How do I find God?' you ask. I do not know how, but I do know where-in my fellow man.
- Elie Wiesel
Man walks the moon but his soul remains riveted to earth. Once upon a time it was the opposite.
- Elie Wiesel
Everything had been said. The pros and the cons. I would choose the living or the dead. Day or night.
- Elie Wiesel
most of us turn to religion for our ethics because we don't know where else to find them.
- Elie Wiesel