Quotes About Philosophy

A minha vida está justificada, justificada, justificada!, continuou a gritar, sem compreender que a vida, por si só, entrega-se a nós sem nenhum tipo de condição, e não há necessidade de justificá-la por meios especialmente mirabolantes.

Often there are two different reasons given for this natural desire to simplify. First is that we as humans have a very limited imagination and whichever medium we use to understand the world - be it science, religion, philosophy, or art -we will end up exploting the same limited set of ideas available to us.

During any Odyssey follow the theodicy.

The pursuit of what is true and the practice of what is good are the two most important objects of philosophy.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.

The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.

When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy

To believe in God is impossible - to not believe in Him is absurd

All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.

Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.

Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

If this is the best of all possible worlds, what are the others like?

Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.

God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

In this best of all possible worlds… everything is for the best.

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.

Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.