Quotes About Philosophy

There is in those workes of nature, which seeme to puzle reason, something Divine, and that hath more in it then the eye of a common spectator doth discover.

If we begin to die when we live, and long life be but a prolongation of death, our life is a sad composition; we live with death, and die not in a moment.

methinks we yet discourse in Plato's den, and are but embryon philosophers.

Questions about God's existence, self disclosure, saving action and almighty power reminded me of my inadequacies. For me the theo in theology had become little more than a question mark. I could confidently discuss philosophy, psychology and social change, but God made me uneasy.

Triumphal arch, that fill'st the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud Philosophy To teach me what thou art.

If we grabbed a materialist by the throat and squeezed very hard so he could not breathe, would it prove to his lungs that there is no such thing as air without a throat?

Ask me no more where Jove bestows,When June is past, the fading rose;For in your beauty's orient deepThese flowers, as in their causes, sleep.

Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt.

Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? Words, words.... Be not the slave of Words...

Lord Bacon could as easily have created the planets as he could have written Hamlet.

Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

Literature is the thought of thinking souls.

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

for is not every meanest Day "the conflux of two Eternities!

To the wisest of them, what we must call the wisest, man is properly an Accident under the sky.

Dante Alighieri] is world-great not because he is world-wide but because he is world-deep.

Silence is deep as Eternity, speech is shallow as Time.

A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things.

So how do we know anything at all, if in fact we do know anything at all?

The optimist says, "The glass is half full." The pessimist says, "The glass is half empty." The rationalist says, "This glass is twice as big as it needs to be." That makes it clear as glass.

1754: Immanuel Kant hat eine Begegnung mit dem Ding an sich und sagt, er könne nicht darüber sprechen.

In any event, Socrates' proof of prenatal immortality is that one of Meno's uneducated slave boys actually comes up with the Pythagorean theorem without ever having studied geometry! Therefore, he must be remembering it. You recall that theorem: in a right triangle, the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides. Huh? We can barely remember that from tenth grade, let alone from before we were born.