Quotes about Philosophy
Cold and hunger seem more friendly to my nature than those methods which men have adopted and advise to ward them off.
- Henry David Thoreau
Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Why should a man have any apprehension about the change and dissolution of all the elements? For it is according to nature, and nothing is evil which is according to nature.
- Marcus Aurelius
Not in opinion but in nature is law founded.
- Cicero
Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.
- Cicero
Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; Our meddling intellect Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things: We murder to dissect.
- William Wordsworth
The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self-mastery.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
The only thing that isn't worthless: to live this life out truthfully and rightly, And be patience with those who don't.
- Marcus Aurelius
You will attract to yourself people who harmonize with your own philosophy of life, whether you wish it or not.
- Napoleon Hill
The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Moral relativism has a reputation for being compassionate, caring and humane, but it is an extremely useful philosophy for tyrants.
- Peter Kreeft
Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing.
- Victor Hugo