Quotes about Philosophy

I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

There is an afterlife. I am convinced of this.

It is embarrassingly unscientific to speak of anything creating itself from nothing.

All things are possible with God." "And if there is no God?" Enele turned back. "Then we're just dust and beasts, and what does it matter?

It is crazy to postulate a trillion (causally unconnected) universes to explain the features of one universe, when postulating one entity (God) will do the job.

Tragically, Solomon's

As obvious as it is, then, Jesus is bigger than any one religion.

He will always transcend whatever cages and labels are created to contain and name him, especially the one called "Christianity.

Why would anybody become a Christian?" That's a question lots of people have—educated, reasonable, modern people who find becoming a Christian an "explosive," not to mention an inconceivable, thing to do.

If the ethical - that is, social morality - is the highest and if there is in a person no residual incommensurability in some way such that this incommensurability is not evil then no categories are needed other than what Greek philosophy had... and what their wisdom amounts to is the beautiful proposition that basically everything is the same.

It is now my intention to draw out from the story of Abraham the dialectical consequences inherent in it, expressing them in the form of problemata , in order to see what a tremendous paradox faith is, a paradox which is capable of transforming a murder into a holy act well-pleasing to God, a paradox which gives Isaac back to Abraham, which no thought can master, because faith begins precisely there where thinking leaves off.