Quotes about Philosophy
Science was born as a result and consequence of philosophy; it cannot survive without a philosophical base. If philosophy perishes, science will be next to go.
— Ayn Rand
The relation of this God with this man; the relation of this man with this God--this is the only theme of the Bible and of philosophy.
— Karl Barth
Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow on another like the withered leaves of Autumn.
— Oscar Wilde
In my reading of philosophy, I saw that there were innumerable problems that nobody was giving answers for the Bible, it struck me, dealt with man's problems in a sweeping, all-encompassing thrust.
— Francis Schaeffer
It is our philosophical set of the sail that determines the course of our lives. To change our current Direction, we have to change our philosophy, not our circumstances.
— Jim Rohn
I know that there is a force in the world and an energy that you can put out, and when you put out love it comes back to you. I think that's my basic philosophy.
— Jennifer Lopez
Never judge a philosophy by its abuse.
— St. Augustine
The whole point of view of the anarchist is that everything must start from the bottom up, from man. It seems to me so human a philosophy.
— Dorothy Day
Faith and philosophy are air, but events are brass.
— Herman Melville
It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively.
— Peter Kreeft
St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to attain the Divine. That is why all pre-Christian philosophy is theological at its summit.
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
Let no young man delay the study of philosophy, and let no old man become weary of it; for it is never too early nor too late to care for the well-being of the soul.
— Epicurus