Quotes About Philosophy

The truth of the matter is this: false ideas about truth lead to false ideas about life.

One who claims to be a skeptic of one set of beliefs is actually a true believer in another set of beliefs." —PHILLIP E. JOHNSON

Any denial of truth presupposes truth, so the existence of truth is inescapable.

Socrates once said that the unexamined life is not worth living.3

When the Roman governor Pilate asked Jesus "What is truth?" nearly 2,000 years ago, he didn't wait for Jesus to respond.

J. dBudziszewski points out, "The motto 'Reason Alone!' is nonsense anyway. Reason itself presupposes faith. Why? Because a defense of reason by reason is circular, therefore worthless. Our only guarantee that human reason works is God who made it.

To say that evil is a privation is not the same as saying that it is a mere absence or negation of good. The power of sight is found neither in a blind man nor in a rock. But it is a privation for the blind man, whereas it is a mere absence in the rock.

contrary beliefs are possible, but contrary truths are not possible. We can believe everything is true, but we cannot make everything true.

Law of Causality, which is the fundamental principle of science. Without the Law of Causality, science is impossible.

For nothing comes from nothing; nothing ever could.

The Law of Causality does not say that everything needs a cause. It says that everything that comes to be needs a cause.

contrary beliefs are possible, but contrary truths are not possible.

this infinite abyss can be filled only with an infinite and immutable object, in other words by God himself. (Pensees, #148)

not that he is totally deprived of all creaturely good metaphysically.

Yes, God is the author of everything, including evil, in the sense that He permits it, but not in the sense that He produces it. Evil happens in His permissive will, but He does not promote evil in His perfect will.

finite being needs a cause, the Cause of all finite beings (God) does not need a cause: He is the Uncaused Cause and Unlimited Limiter of all limited things.

God can intervene in the universe he created despite what David Hume says.

The Law of Noncontradiction is a self-evident first principle of thought that says contradictory claims cannot both be true at the same time in the same sense.

Law of Noncontradiction.

The goal of being alive is to figure out what it means to be alive.

Science fiction tends to be philosophy for stupid people.

What my mom failed to understand was that I didn't even want long hair -- I needed long hair. And my desire for protracted, flowing locks had virtually nothing to do with fashion, nor was it a form of protest against the constructions of mainstream society. My motivation was far more philosophical. I wanted to rock.

I tend to equate sadness with intelligence.

Klosterman's Razor: the philosophical belief that the best hypothesis is the one that reflexively accepts its potential wrongness to begin with. _____________________________