Quotes about Philosophy
Concerning the Investigation of Super-History' (Urgeschichte) (pp. 20—8)
— Karl Barth
Of Myself and of Death' (pp. 287—300).
— Karl Barth
I regard anticommunism as a matter of principle an evil even greater than communism itself.
— Karl Barth
Christian minds have been conformed to the modern spirit: the spirit, that is, that spawns great thoughts of man and leaves room for only small thoughts of God.
— JI Packer
Evil into the mind of god or man may come and go, so unapproved, and leave no spot or blame behind.
— John Milton
When men live as if there were no God, it becomes expedient for them that there should be none.
— John Tillotson
Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
— Joseph Addison
Suppose that men kill thee, cut thee in pieces, curse thee, what can these things do to prevent thy mind from remaining pure, wise, sober, just?
— Marcus Aurelius
In the same degree in which a man's mind is nearer to freedom from all passion, in the same degree also is it nearer to strength.
— Marcus Aurelius
Immortality no longer interests the weary old man at all.
— Milan Kundera
Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.
— Samuel Johnson
Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.
— Thomas Paine