Quotes About Philosophy

The power of the Good has taken refuge in the nature of the Beautiful

Nature has some perfections to show that she is the image of God, and some defects to show that she is only His image.

There is a great difference between mind and body insomuch as body is by nature always divisible, and the mind is entirely indivisible.

Men became scientific because they expected Law in Nature, and they expected Law in Nature because they believed in a Law Giver.

History is the discovering of the principles of human nature.

The works of nature must all be accounted good.

Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.

The extreme nature of dominant-end views is often concealed by the vagueness and ambiguity of the end proposed.

Death, like birth, is one of nature's mysteries, the combining of primal elements and dissolving of the same into the same.

I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.

Religions are conclusions for which the facts of nature supply no major premises.

Dostoevsky - is not a realist as an artist, he is an experimentator, a creator of an experimential metaphysics of human nature.

We don't really think that man is that immoral, we don't think that man of his own nature would run around...fighting wars and building napalm bombs...so maybe there's something else going on

Nature does not make mistakes. Right and wrong are human categories.

To be ignorant of motion is to be ignorant of nature

The philosophers likewise assume that in Nature there is nothing in vain, so that everything that is not the product of human industry serves a certain purpose, which may be known or unknown to us.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

George Burns . . . the only man I know who does fool Mother Nature.

It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the same effect in the same circumstances.

Nature has lent us life at interest, like money, and has fixed no day for its payment.

It is not easy to determine the nature of music, or why any one should have a knowledge of it.

I love only nature, and I hate mathematicians.

No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.

Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.