Quotes About Philosophy

Every single act of one who would lead a life of purity should be in the nature of yajna.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Why should a man have any apprehension about the change and dissolution of all the elements? For it is according to nature, and nothing is evil which is according to nature.

Retire into thyself. The rational principle which rules has this nature, that it is content with itself when it does what is just, and so secures tranquility.

To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason.

Not in opinion but in nature is law founded.

Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.

I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.

Nothing is more idle than to inquire after happiness, which nature has kindly placed within our reach.

O lady! we receive but what we give And in our life alone does Nature live.

Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises.

Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.

For what else is Nature but God and the Divine Reason that pervades the whole universe and all its parts.

To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.

I admit that some of my ideas may have turned out to be pessimistic in nature.

To say God spake or appeared as he is in his own nature, is to deny his Infiniteness, Invisibility, Incomprehensibility.

There is no absurdity in theology so great that you cannot parallel it by a greater absurdity in Nature.

The old question of whether there is design is idle. The real question is what is the world, whether or not it have a designer--and that can be revealed only by the study of all nature's particulars.

Nature hath no goal, though she hath law.

Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other.

Men argue nature acts.

To hold as 't were the mirror up to nature.

All humans are rogues. Cured only by death.

To be a philosopher you do not need to be a professor but you do have to love and understand nature.