Quotes about Philosophy
He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.
- John Donne
Whether religion be true or false, it must be necessarily granted to be the only wise principle and safe hypothesis for a man to live and die by.
- John Tillotson
Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.
- Confucius
If any be unhappy, let him remember that he is unhappy by reason of himself alone. For God hath made all men to enjoy felicity and constancy of good.
- Epictetus
Two times two will be four even without my will. Is that what you call man's free will?
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
A man who has become conscious of the absurd is for ever bound to it.
- Albert Camus
Men die and they are not happy.
- Albert Camus
Man's character is the product of his premises.
- Ayn Rand
Aren't all these notes the senseless writings of a man who won't accept the fact that there is nothing we can do with suffering except to suffer it?
- CS Lewis
There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
- Epicurus
"I love mankind," he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular."
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
The moral and spiritual aspects of both personal and international relationships have a practical bearing which so-called practical men deny.
- Henry A. Wallace