Quotes about Philosophy
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
The higher the truth, the simpler it is.
— Abraham Isaac Kook
My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth in a few words.
— Samuel Johnson
Begin with the beautiful, which leads you to the good, which leads you to the truth.
— Robert Barron
The truth is a trap: you cannot get it without it getting you; you cannot get the truth by capturing it, only by its capturing you.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Beauty is the brilliance of truth.
— St. Augustine
To be conservative at 20 is heartless and to be a liberal at 60 is plain idiocy.
— Winston Churchill
No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such
— Marcus Aurelius
In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
— Soren Kierkegaard