Quotes about Philosophy

Personal associations are important, because everyone acquires something of the philosophy, the personality, and the mental

Being a philosopher as well as a preacher, Dr. Gunsaulus recognized, as do all who succeed in life, that DEFINITENESS OF PURPOSE is the starting point from which one must begin. He recognized, too, that definiteness of purpose takes on animation, life, and power when backed by a BURNING DESIRE to translate that purpose into its material equivalent.

Whether one believes in miracles or the miraculous has mostly to do with the presuppositions one brings to the subject.

Judaism is a way of thinking, more than anything else, that I think is entirely distinct, and the more you know of it, the more you can enter into that kind of thinking.

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

God is not a statistical truth, hence it is just as stupid to try to prove the existence of God as to deny him.

In politics as in philosophy, my tenets are few and simple. The leading one of which, and indeed that which embraces most others, is to be honest and just ourselves and to exact it from others, meddling as little as possible in their affairs where our own are not involved. If this maxim was generally adopted, wars would cease and our swords would soon be converted into reap hooks and our harvests be more peaceful, abundant, and happy.

Ideas are not intellectuals' toys: ideas have consequences, for good and for ill, in what even intellectuals sometimes call "the real world".

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

Time is an eternal guest that banquets on our ideals and bodies.

Time is an illusion-to orators.

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.