Quotes about Philosophy
If you ask my favourite team, I'll say Arsenal. It is a club with a good philosophy, where youngsters get their chance.
— Michy Batshuayi
Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
— Dante Alighieri
Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?
— Epictetus
Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
— Aldous Huxley
The object of the superior man is truth.
— Confucius
The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities.
— Aristotle
All proofs inevitably lead to propositions which have no proof! All things are known because we want to believe in them.
— Frank Herbert
If somebody postulates the existence of more than one god, I would have to say we don't worship the same god. If somebody says that God is basically one with the world, I would also have to say we don't worship the same god.
— Miroslav Volf
Aquinas is worth reading. He has stood the test of time. And even where he errs, you can learn more from the errors of a great mind than you can learn from the truths of a small mind. You can see a whole lot farther standing on the shoulders of giants.
— Norman Geisler
What I do is spend too much time thinking. Most of the time I just walk around annoyed. Would I describe myself as relatively happy, I suppose, but society gets to me. And the people that have mastered life seem to not care, and then they die, and then the grenade goes off.
— Neill Blomkamp
To greed, all nature is insufficient.
— Seneca
Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find.
— Seneca