Quotes about Philosophy
Socrates says we must be either fools because we think we are wise, or wise because we know we are fools. Christ says we must be either sinners who think we are saints, or saints who know we are sinners. Even
- Peter Kreeft
Hence the fact that some happen to doubt about articles of faith is not due to the uncertain nature of the truths, but to the weakness of human intelligence;
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All that exists is metaphysically true and metaphysically good.
- Peter Kreeft
Some say that to the gods we are like flies that boys idly swat on a summer day. Others say that not a feather from a sparrow falls to the ground without the will of the Heavenly Father." Those are the only two options.
- Peter Kreeft
Socrates' point is that there are only two kinds of people in this world: the wise, who know they are fools, and fools, who think they are wise. Wisdom
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For we are not pure spirits who happen to be trapped in bodies. We are not even spirits who only have bodies, for we do not have bodies as we have possessions. We are bodies as well as souls.
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we have that the animal does not: reason and free will, or free choice.
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Science asks what and how, philosophy asks why, myth and religion ask who. Who's
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4) But only man knows consciously and rationally, and only man's loves can be conscious and rational and responsible through free will.
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the doctrine of anamnesis: that all learning-that is, all learning of eternal truths-is really a remembering
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angelism, confusing man with an angel by denying his likeness to animals, and animalism, confusing man with an animal by denying his likeness to angels.
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More accurately stated, man is not both angel and animal because he is neither angel nor animal; he is between angels and animals, a unique rung on the cosmic ladder.
- Peter Kreeft