Quotes about Philosophy
The consistent thinker ... is either a walking mummy or else if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality a fanatical monomaniac.
— Aldous Huxley
A man's life is what his thoughts make it.
— Marcus Aurelius
If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now.
— Marcus Aurelius
Given the unfairness that strikes so many people in life, I would rather believe in a God of limited power and unlimited love and justice, rather than the other way around.
— Harold S. Kushner
I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
— William Golding
I believe in the theoretical benevolence, and the practical malignity of man.
— William Hazlitt
The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.
— William James
Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits
— William James
Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events. Its verity is in fact an event, a process: the process namely of its verifying itself, its veri-fication. Its validity is the process of its valid-ation.
— William James
Pluralism lets things really exist in the each-form or distributively. Monism thinks that the all-form or collective-unit form is the only form that is rational.
— William James
The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist.
— William James
If the atheist believes that suffering is bad or ought not to be, then he's making moral judgments that are possible only if God exists.
— William Lane Craig