Quotes about Philosophy
Among many parallels which men of imagination have drawn between the natural and moral state of the world, it has been observed that happiness as well as virtue consists in mediocrity.
- Samuel Johnson
The science that studies the supreme good for man is politics.
- Aristotle
What is the highest of all goods achievable by action? ...both the general run of man and people of superior refinement say that it is happiness ...but with regard to what happiness is they differ.
- Aristotle
I believe that George Washington knew the City of Man cannot survive without the City of God; that the Visible City will perish without the Invisible City.
- Ronald Reagan
But man is freer than all the animals, on account of his free-will, with which he is endowed above all other animals.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Man's search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
- Viktor E. Frankl
The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought.
- Heinrich Heine
Without goodness a man cannot endure adversity for long, nor can he enjoy prosperity for long. The good man is naturally at ease with goodness. The wise man cultivates goodness for its advantage.
- Confucius
Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life.
- Dale Carnegie
Nature herself makes the wise man rich.
- Cicero
If Christianity is untrue, then no honest man will want to believe it, however helpful it might be; if it is true, every honest man will want to believe it, even if it gives him no help at all
- CS Lewis
There is more religion in men's science, than there is science in their religion.
- Henry David Thoreau