Quotes about Philosophy
All the dry ethics of the world turn to dust because apart from God they are lifeless.
- Mahatma Gandhi
If God did not exist, we should have to invent him. If God did exist, we should have to abolish Him.
- Albert Camus
The absurd is sin without God.
- Albert Camus
What interests me most is whether God could have made the world differently.
- Albert Einstein
God is basic Fact. He must not be thought of as a featureless generality. He is the most concrete thing there is.
- CS Lewis
Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask.
- CS Lewis
I have never wished there was a God to call on- I have often wished there was a God to thank.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
It is possible to reason out the existence of God to a limited extent.
- Mahatma Gandhi
To disparage the dictate of reason is equivalent to contemning the command of God.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
It is necessary to posit something which is necessary of itself, and has no cause of its necessity outside of itself but is the cause of necessity in other things. And all people call this thing God.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
God is not related to creatures as though belonging to a different "genus," but as transcending every "genus," and as the principle of all "genera.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
- William James