Quotes About Philosophy

We must overturn any theologian that appeals to God's incomprehensibility in order to negate God's knowability.

Since Christianity is the truth, to perform an investigation for truth independently of it necessarily means that the investigation must adopt a false starting point.

ignorance of divine revelation affects all of thought and life, from one's view toward history and philosophy, to one's interpretation of music and literature, to one's understanding of mathematics and physics.

Although even Christians often assume that human beings possess free will, it is a pagan notion that finds no support from the Bible.

Why is life worth living on the basis of evolutionary principles? To propagate the species? But why must the human species continue to exist? On account of humanistic theories, humanity would eventually become extinct.

To begin, any human government should be established "by God's authority, for God's glory," and not "by the people, for the people." This is not to overturn the foundation of American government or the philosophy of democracy.

The Bible contains all that is necessary to construct a complete worldview, a true view of reality.

On what basis do they say that right and wrong is determined by whether it hurts someone?

the clash between the Christian worldview and the non-Christian worldview, the Christian basis of thinking and judgment and the non-Christian basis of thinking and judgment.

If there is an objective standard that determines the meaning of goodness, then we should discover what it is, and set forth the method of knowing such a standard of goodness.

All non-Christian systems of thought begin, proceed, and end in intellectual and practical failure. Thus God has made all non-Christian religions and philosophies foolish and futile.

If we think deeply enough, we will realize that every single proposition we speak or every action we perform presupposes a set of interrelated ultimate principles by which we perceive and respond to reality. This is our worldview.

Man did not invent logic, but logic came from God, and we have some grasp of logic and perceive its necessity because God thinks in accordance with the principles of logic, and he has made us in his own image. God thinks in accordance with the principles of logic not because he is subservient to a set of rules that are higher than himself; rather, the principles of logic are descriptions of the way God thinks. They are descriptions of his rational nature.

Collège de France,

meus sentimentos, em estado de exaltação, tendem mais às preocupações com a eternidade e a vida eterna.

Asl?nda zorluklar?n üstünde fazla düÅŸünmüyorum, çünkü bunlar üstünde gereÄŸinden fazla durdun mu sersemliyorsun ya da iyice bozuluyorsun.

In our country religion is not different from philosophy and religion & philosophy don't differ from science.

We are here," I said, "just to stagger on. To be nice to each other. To be kind. That's all there is to it. Life is," I went on, warming to my theme, "one big mystery. If you ask what it means you just waste time when you could be making someone else's life happier.

What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.

the justice of Christ breaks in and fragments the systems of the world, its philosophy, ecclesial structures legal rules–in short, the earthly economies and regimes.

Socrates […] is recorded as having said, sagely and with the greatest acuteness, that men's breasts should have windows in them and be open so that their thoughts would not remain concealed but open for inspection.

This is a particular idea in all our teachings which I like, either in philosophy, or in religion, or in work. If you read the Vedas, you will find this word always repeated — fearlessness — fear nothing. Fear is a sign of weakness. A man must go about his duties without taking notice of the sneers and the ridicule of the world.

According to the Yogis there are two nerve-currents in the spinal column, called Pingalâ and Idâ, and that there is a hollow canal called Sushumnâ running through the entire spinal cord. At the lower end of the hollow canal is what the Yogis call the "Lotus of the Kundalini." They

To work we have the right, but not to the fruits thereof:" Leave the fruits alone. Why care for results? If you wish to help a man, never think what that man's attitude should be towards you. If you want to do a great or a good work, do not trouble to think what the result will be.