Quotes about Philosophy
When you see people your own age afflicted and experiencing life-threatening illnesses, I think it prompts you to apply to yourself the philosophy, 'I want to do the best I know how to do every day.'
- Thomas Monson
The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.
- William James
A horse walks into a bar, and the barman says "Why the long face?". The horse replies: "I'm deeply troubled by the anthropomorphic aspects of my existence and the extent to which I am now protected by law."
- Bill Bailey
Life is very difficult. One of the most ancient of religious ideas that emerges everywhere, I would say, is that life is essentially suffering.
- Jordan Peterson
If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
- CS Lewis
If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.
- St. Augustine
Is the human race a joke? Was it devised and patched together in a dull time when there was nothing important to do?
- Mark Twain
Whom God has put asunder, why should man put together?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Live in the fields, and God will give you lectures on natural philosophy every day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
On tight money: It reflects a reversion to the old idea that the tree can be fertilized at the top instead of at the bottom - the old trickle-down theory.
- Harry S. Truman
Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
- Jonathan Edwards
God wants you to understand the Word of God. The Bible is not a mystery book. It's not a book of philosophy. It's a book of truth that explains the attitude and heart of almighty God.
- Charles Stanley