Quotes about Philosophy

Faith is the master, and reason the maid-servant.

Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from faith. If the realist once believes, then he is bound by his very realism to admit the miraculous also.

Reason is our soul's left hand Faith her right. By this we reach divinity.

Seek not to understand that thou mayest believe but believe that thou mayest understand.

My faith runs so very much faster than my reason that I can challenge the whole world and say, 'God is, was and ever shall be'

We live Law to ourselves. Our reason is our Law.

Or if they list to try Conjecture, he his fabric of the Heavens Hath left to their disputes, perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide. John Milton, Paradise Lost viii 75-78

But past who can recall, or don undoe? Not God Omnipotent, nor Fate

Dostoyevsky, who was a believer, wrote that the "death of a single infant calls into question the existence of God."1

But a philosopher named William James responded that sometimes Clifford's advice is bad strategy. He said doubt is the wrong alternative when three conditions are met: when we have live options, when the stakes are momentous, and when we must make a choice.3

So many people never pause long enough to make up their minds about basic issues of life and death. It's quite possible to go through your whole life, making the mechanical motions of living, adopting as your own sets of ideas you've come to any conclusion for yourself as to what life is all about.

Religious and philosophical beliefs are, indeed, as dangerous as fire, and nothing can take from them that beauty of danger. But there is only one way of really guarding ourselves against the excessive danger of them, and that is to be steeped in philosophy and soaked in religion.