Quotes About Philosophy

The question of what happens after life is question that unifies human beings.

I do not like the idea of happiness -- it is too momentary.

If some people want to believe in Jesus, or Mohammed, or Buddha, or their ancestors, who is to say which is right and which wrong? It seems to me that most of the religions in the world are too dogmatic. They preach the 'live and let live' philosophy, but rarely do they practise it.

But life here is not the end. Reality is more than we think it to be. There is another and greater reality that envelops this earthly one. Earth is not outside heaven, as the philosopher Peter Kreeft wrote; it is heaven's workshop, heaven's womb.

One of my clients told me the story of the optimist and the pessimist who were arguing about philosophy. The optimist declares,"This is the best of all possible worlds." The pessimist sighs and says, "You're right.

La fuerza de la familia emana de los padres y sus convicciones. Si no existe una filosofía, estrategia o enfoque coherente a la crianza infantil, y si los valores no son claros, la conducta de los padres suele ser inconsistente y confusa.

The real question is why is there "being"? The existence of existence is amazing, awesome.

Why is there an "is"? Why is there something rather than nothing? For that answer both science and religion must turn to the metaphysical.

Life is better than death. I know this. Tequamuck says it is the coward's talk. I say it is braver, sometimes, to bend.

It is impossible to imitate Voltaire without being Voltaire.

Our hope of immortality does not come from any religion, but nearly all religions come from that hope.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

I teach that all men are mad.

Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.

Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premisses, but in the nature and parts of premisses.

We should chiefly depend not upon that department of the soul which is most superficial and fallible (our reason), but upon that department that is deep and sure, which is instinct.

The brain is not, and cannot be, the sole or complete organ of thought and feeling.

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.

The thinker philosophizes as the lover loves. Even were the consequences not only useless but harmful, he must obey his impulse.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.

Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy.

Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.

Leisure is the mother of philosophy.