Quotes about Philosophy
Consider first, that great or bright infers not excellence.
- John Milton
Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that can become fruitful
- Albert Camus
The most intractable of our experiences is the experience of Time-the intuition of duration, combined with the thought of perpetual perishing.
- Aldous Huxley
All theory is against freedom of the will all experience for it.
- Samuel Johnson
Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
- St. Augustine
Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from the faith.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Faith is not the opposite of reason. Faith rests squarely upon reason, but with the added component of revelation.
- Francis Collins
Absolute atheism starts in an act of faith in reverse gear and is a full-blown religious commitment.
- Jacques Maritain
To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred.
- Albert Camus
I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.
- Mahatma Gandhi
I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin.
- GK Chesterton
Intelligent design is consistent with any faith system I can think of, because most faith systems believe that there is a creator.
- Lee Strobel