Quotes About Philosophy

I cheerfully quit from life as if it were an inn, not a home; for Nature has given us a hostelry in which to sojourn, not to abide.

Note that the eating of flesh is not only physically against nature, but it also makes us spiritually coarse and gross by reason of satiety and surfeit.

If we are immortal, it is a fact of nature, and that fact does not depend on bibles, on Christs, priest, or creeds.

That is the logical tight-rope on which we have to walk if we wish to interpret nature.

There are questions we could not get past if we were not set free from them by our very nature.

The question of immortality is of its nature not a scholarly question. It is a question welling up from the interior which the subject must put to itself as it becomes conscious of itself.

Philosophy ought to be able to give an account of rationality that is not wholly detached from science's account of nature, even if it is not straightforwardly reducible to it.

If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich.

Human beings are part of nature. Anything they do is natural. It's impossible for anything in nature to do anything unnatural.

... the space left to freedom is very small.ends are inherent in human nature and the same for all.

Some speak of a return to nature, I wonder where they could have been?

Nature is thought immersed in matter. . .

If language is intimately related to being human, then when we study language we are, to a remarkable degree, studying human nature.

Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.

Galileo wrote that 'the book of nature is written in the language of mathematics; without its help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it.'

If we are immortal it is a fact in nature, and we are not indebted to priests for it, nor to bibles for it, and it cannot be destroyed by unbelief.

We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is!

Focus not on what he or she does, but on keeping to your higher purpose. Your own purpose should seek harmony with nature itself. For this is the true road to freedom.

What astonishes many of us is not so much that human nature is fundamentally corrupt; we are astonished rather that it does not behave more wickedly than it obviously does.

Nothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature but all things become so through habit

The works of nature first acquire a meaning in the commentaries they provoke.

One of our great thematic traditions in Bad Religion has been to question human nature.

Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.

It is impossible to meditate on time and the mystery of nature without an overwhelming emotion at the limitations of human intelligence.