Quotes About Philosophy

Remember that rights are moral principles which define and protect a man's freedom of action, but impose no obligations on other men.

The attack on "selfishness" is an attack on man's self-esteem; to surrender one, is to surrender the other.

It is profound philosophy to sound the depths of feeling and distinguish traits of character. Men must be studied as deeply as books.

... a little philosophy carries a man from God, but a great deal brings him back again.

Will, without reason, is a blind man's motion; will, against reason, is a madman's motion.

Such an explication of Grace as sets men at liberty in morals, makes void the Law through Faith.

Unhappy business men, I am convinced, would increase their happiness more by walking six miles every day than by any conceivable change of philosophy.

Thomas Aquinas states parenthetically, as something entirely obvious, that men are more rational than women. For my part, I see no evidence of this.

Is a man what he seems to the astronomer, a tiny lump of impure carbon and water crawling impotently on a small and unimportant planet? Or is he what he appears to Hamlet? Is he perhaps both as once?

I do wish I believed in the life eternal, for it makes me quite miserable to think man is merely a kind of machine endowed, unhappily for himself, with consciousness.

No man who believes that all is for the best in this suffering world can keep his ethical values unimpaired, since he is always having to find excuses for pain and misery.

Men have discovered other philosophical and ethical systems, but they have not found another Jesus Christ. No one in history can match Him.

Thought makes the whole dignity of man; therefore endeavor to think well, that is the only morality.

How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!

Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.

The state of man is inconstancy, ennui, anxiety.

The philosophers talk to you about the dignity of man, and they tempt you to pride, or they talk to you about the misery of man, and they tempt you to despair.

The great mass of people judge well of things, for they are in natural ignorance, which is man's true state.

Look, I learned from your uncle that when the universe turns out to be insane, the wise man embraces insanity.

And the formation of man is the most pressing problem facing humanity.

Did God make man in a breath of holy fire, or did he crawl on up out of the muck and mire?

The wise men were all fools, what to do?

Besides reasoning about matters of fact, men also make moral judgements.

If we continue to make moral judgements (and whatever we say shall in fact continue) then we must believe that the conscience of man is not a product of nature.