Quotes About Philosophy

For if a thing is not diminished by being shared with others, it is not rightly owned if it is only owned and not shared.

The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.

The study of truth requires a considerable effort - which is why few are willing to undertake it out of love of knowledge - despite the fact that God has implanted a natural appetite for such knowledge in the minds of men.

Nothing which implies contradiction falls under the omnipotence of God.

The flesh is sad, alas, and I have read all the books.

The flesh, alas, is sad, and I have read all the books.

The whole world is made to end up in a beautiful book.

I'm pretty sure if Socrates ever met a Kardashian, he'd have gone into the first bar and ordered himself a double hemlock straight up with a twist.

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Some like to understand what they believe in. Others like to believe in what they understand

In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.

You can change your faith without changing gods, and vice versa.

What gave you this idea of an imperfect god?' 'I don't know. It seems quite feasible to me. That is the only god I could imagine believing in, a god whose passion is not a redemption, who saves nothing, fulfills no purpose--a god who simply is.

Is a mountain only a huge stone? Is a planet an enormous mountain?

For moral reasons ... the world appears to me to be put together in such a painful way that I prefer to believe that it was not created ... intentionally.

Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior.

This sense of perfection has a built-in contradiction, one that Ram Dass once captured very succinctly by a statement he had heard from his Himalayan guru: "The world is absolutely perfect, including your own dissatisfaction with it, and everything you are trying to do to change it.

Materialistic scientists have not been able to produce any convincing evidence that consciousness is a product of the neurophysiological processes in the brain.

I don't agree with mathematics; the sum total of zeros is a frightening figure.

Everything is illusion. Even that last sentence.

Ich stimme mit der Mathematik nicht überein. Ich meine, dass die Summe von Nullen eine gefährliche Zahl ist.

Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. That is the principal difference between a dog and a man. MARK TWAIN

John Locke, rejecting a central thesis of Cartesian philosophy, argued that the mind was a tabula rasa, an empty vessel devoid of any innate ideas. As a result, it is passive in the knowing process. It simply receives "impressions" from the external world through the senses and then formulates ideas from the impressions it has gathered.