Quotes About Philosophy

They tell you that a tree is only a combination of chemical elements. I prefer to believe that God created it, and that it is inhabited by a nymph.

Absurd, irreducible; nothing--not even a profound and secret delirium of nature--could explain [a tree root].

All religions are branches of one big tree.

The world is a garden of philosophy. God is its gardener; Man is the visitor. And any tree that does not bear fruits of philosophy either does not belong to that garden or is yet to be grown.

All theory, my friend, is grey, But green is life's glad golden tree.

The philosophy that I've embraced isn't about sitting under a tree and studying my navel.

If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, doesn't it just lie there and rot?

If a tree falls in the forest and it hits a mime, would he make a noise?

Morality is the fruit of religion: to desire the former without the latter is to desire an orange without an orange-tree.

What if a tree fell in the forest and no one knew it's biological name? Did it exist?

I saw a tree fall in the woods, and I didn't hear it.

It was the greatest sensation of existence: not to trust but to know.

The alphabet will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls. They will trust the written characters and not remember themselves.

What has philosophy got to do with measuring anything? It's the mathematicians you have to trust, and they measure the skies like we measure a field.

I transmit but do not create. I place my trust in the teachings of antiquity.

Even theologians, even the great theologians of the thirteenth century, even Saint Thomas Aquinas himself did not trust to faith alone, or assume the existence of God.

Faith is trust in ultimate meaning.

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

An army of philosophers would not be sufficient to change the nature of error and to make it truth.

Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.

You must learn all things, both the unshaken heart of persuasive truth, and the opinions of mortals in which there is no true warranty.

The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.

The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.