Quotes about Philosophy

Praise God (or whatever it is) from (if direction exists) whom (if personality exists) all blessings (if that word corresponds to any percept of objective reality) flow (if Heraclitus and Bergson and Einstein are correct in stating that everything is more or less flowing about).

What women want as a class is irrelevant. I want to know about Aristotle. It is true that most women care nothing about him, and a great many male undergraduates turn pale and faint at the thought of him-but I, eccentric individual that I am, do want to know about Aristotle, and I submit that there is nothing in my shape or bodily functions which need prevent my knowing about him.

Francis Bacon," said Peter, a trifle belatedly. "Mr. Kirk, you're a man after my own heart.

Faith is the first step to understanding. Either it's the Word of an infallible God, the fallible words of men, or faith in what you personally believe. You've got to have faith in something. Believe me.

Notoriously outspoken, his sentences always punctuated with profanities, General George S. Patton was the epitome of what a leader should be like - or so he thought. Patton believed a leader should look and act tough, so he cultivated his image and his personality to match his philosophy.

The greatest evil is physical pain.

Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears apples.

There are two laws discrete,Not reconciled—Law for man, and law for thing.

God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please — you can never have both.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.