Quotes about Philosophy
The attack on "selfishness" is an attack on man's self-esteem; to surrender one, is to surrender the other.
- Ayn Rand
Men have discovered other philosophical and ethical systems, but they have not found another Jesus Christ. No one in history can match Him.
- Billy Graham
Besides reasoning about matters of fact, men also make moral judgements.
- CS Lewis
If we continue to make moral judgements (and whatever we say shall in fact continue) then we must believe that the conscience of man is not a product of nature.
- CS Lewis
Man is the matter of the cosmos, contemplating itself.
- Carl Sagan
It's over, and can't be helped, and that's one consolation, as they always say in Turkey, when they cut the wrong man's head off.
- Charles Dickens
Man has learned to cope with all questions of importance without recourse to God as a working hypothesis.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Man is by his constitution a religious animal; atheism is against not only our reason, but our instincts.
- Edmund Burke
What good can come from meeting death with tears? If a man Is sorry for himself, he doubles death.
- Euripides
Suppose, gentleman, that man is not stupid.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Thus, as a result of heightened consciousness, a man feels as if it's all right if he's bad as long as he knows it- as though that were any consolation.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman.
- GK Chesterton