Quotes about Philosophy

I can say—not as a patriotic bromide, but with full knowledge of the necessary metaphysical, epistemological, ethical, political and esthetic roots—that the United States of America is the greatest, the noblest and, in its original founding principles, the only moral country in the history of the world. | ~~Ayn Rand "Philosophy: Who Needs It, 10

God is non-man, heaven is non-earth, soul is non-body, virtue is non-profit. A is non-A, perception is non-sensory, knowledge is non-reason. Their definitions are not acts of defining, but of wiping out.

He was seeing a long line of men stretched through the centuries from Plato onward, whose heir and final product was an incompetent little professor with the appearance of a gigolo and the soul of a thug.

I'm an old-fashioned guy. I believe in the Enlightenment, and reason, and logic, and you know, facts.

I'm always looking at the dialectic between the truth we believe exists outside ourselves and the truth we invent for ourselves.

One man asked another on the death of a mutual friend, "How much did he leave?" His friend responded, "He left it all.

Discipline derives from disciple—disciple to a philosophy, disciple to a set of principles, disciple to a set of values, disciple to an overriding purpose, to a superordinate goal or a person who represents that goal.

I think it should contain two basic parts: vision and principles. Vision deals with the mental picture of what you are about. And principles deal with how you go about it.

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

Now I beg of you to tell me whether I must love a human being simply because he exists or resembles me and whether for those reasons alone I must suddenly prefer him to myself?

This is all that I've known for certain, that God is love. Even if I have been mistaken on this or that point: God is nevertheless love.

Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.