Quotes about Philosophy
I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
— Herman Melville
If God were not a necessary Being of Himself, He might almost seem to be made for the use and benefit of men.
— John Tillotson
I am convinced that the air we normally breathe is a kind of water, and men and women are a species of fish.
— DH Lawrence
For the absurd man, it is not a matter of explaining and solving, but of experiencing and describing. Everything begins with lucid indifference.
— Albert Camus
I continue to believe that this world has no ultimate meaning. But I know that something in it has a meaning and that is man, because he is the only creature to insist on having one
— Albert Camus
What is essential in the life of a man of my kind is what he thinks and how he thinks, and not what he does or suffers.
— Albert Einstein
The conviction that the world and man is something that had better not have been, is of a kind to fill us with indulgence towards one another.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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