Quotes about Philosophy
Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
- Carl Sagan
Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
- Marcus Aurelius
When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature, we have the pedant.
- Confucius
A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.
- Walt Whitman
The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.
- Epicurus
By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
- Confucius
The inner nature of man is the province of Music.
- Confucius
Men became scientific because they expected Law in Nature, and they expected Law in Nature because they believed in a Law Giver.
- CS Lewis
Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
George Burns . . . the only man I know who does fool Mother Nature.
- Ronald Reagan
A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
- Albert Einstein
On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life, Musing is solitude
- William Wordsworth