Quotes about Philosophy
We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears apples.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are two laws discrete,Not reconciled—Law for man, and law for thing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please — you can never have both.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To sustain the belief that there is no God, atheism has to demonstrate infinite knowledge, which is tantamount to saying, "I have infinite knowledge that there is no being in existence with infinite knowledge
- Ravi Zacharias
It is easier to hide behind philosophical arguments, heavily footnoted for effect, than it is to admit our hurts, our confusions, our loves, and our passions in the marketplace of life's heartfelt transactions.
- Ravi Zacharias
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.
- Ray Comfort
It is true that you can't prove a negative. However, the existence of God is provable in the same way a building is positive proof that there was a builder.
- Ray Comfort
Atheists don't hate fairies, leprechauns, or unicorns because they don't exist. It is impossible to hate something that doesn't exist. Atheists — like the painting experts hated the painter — hate God because He does exist.
- Ray Comfort
I'm not a beatnik. I'm a Catholic.
- Jack Kerouac