Quotes About Philosophy

So multiverse or not, we still have to come to terms with the origin of the laws of nature. And the only viable explanation here is the divine Mind.

Is nature a giant cat? If so, who strokes its back?

This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.

Living virtuously is equal to living in accordance with one's experience of the actual course of nature

He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.

The greatest good is the knowledge of the union which the mind has with the whole nature.

...To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage

A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.

Man was not intended by nature to live in communities and be civilized.

Speculation, like nature, abhors a vacuum.

Nature itself cannot err

Live according to Nature, runs the maxim of the West; but according to what nature, the nature of the body or the nature which exceeds the body? This first we ought to determine.

Is it reasonable to assume a purposiveness in all the parts of nature and to deny it to the whole?

So is it just human nature to believe that things happen for a reason - to find some shred of meaning even in the worst experiences?

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

When we make mistakes they call it evil. When God makes mistakes they call it Nature!

Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.

Good humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us.

By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.

The deepest, the intelligible, part of the nature of man is that part which does not take refuge in causality, but which chooses in freedom the good or the bad.

The hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is even condemned to find much of his own mind.

Western artists stand as humans looking at nature; Asian artists try to be in nature. You become one with nature rather than painting a portrait of it. That's a big shift.

The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what we're talking about.

We know nothing at all. All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren. The real nature of things we shall never know.