Quotes About Philosophy

Part of me is drawn to the nature of sadness because I think life is sad, and sadness is not something that should be avoided or denied. It's a fact of life, like contradictions are.

The laws of nature may be operative up to a certain limit, beyond which they turn against themselves to give birth to the absurd.

I would say that I am a poor Christian; I'm not a believer. It was this idea very early in my life that life on Earth, nature or man could not be a creation of a merciful God.

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

Thanks be to blessed Nature that she has made what is necessary easy to obtain, and what is not easy unnecessary.

In women's destiny everything goes downhill except for thought, whose immortal nature it is to keep constantly rising.

His second motto: Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy laws my services are bound.

All our thinking is of this nature, a free play with concepts.

No matter how we may single out a complex from nature...its theoretical treatment will never prove to be ultimately conclusive... I believe that this process of deepening of theory has no limits.

An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries.

Study not man in his animal nature - man following the laws of the jungle - but study man in all his glory.

Nature, my dear sir, is only a hypothesis.

We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.

Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature.

Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the nature of language.

No one can keep you from living as your nature requires. Nothings can happen to you that is not required by Nature.

The mysteries of Nature and of humanity are not lessened, but increased, by the discoveries of philosophic skill.

Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press.

The force of nonviolence is infinitely more wonderful and subtle than the material forces of nature, like electricity.

For any particular thing, ask: What is it in itself? What is its nature?

But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature.

Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.

There is no nature in an instant.