Quotes About Philosophy

I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.

If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.

History should be written as philosophy.

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

This is the happiest of all men, for he is superior to everything he possesses.

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one.

Once the people begin to reason, all is lost.

Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.

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

T]o remain in a continually exalted moral condition is not human nature.

Language is the measure of our lives, and what it means to be human.

Now days are dragon-ridden, the nightmare Rides upon sleep: a drunken soldiery Can leave the mother, murdered at her door, To crawl in her own blood, and go scott-free; The night can sweat with terror as before We pieced our thoughts into philosophy, And planned to bring the world under rule, Who are but weasels fighting in a hole.

Now what? Was I to be reborn over and over, forever? Could a dog have more than one purpose? How was that possible?

John Lennon dijo que la vida es lo que sucede mientras hacemos otros planes.

Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer.

Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?

Remember: The essence of a living philosophy is that it must be alive. To be alive, it must be lived. To be lived, you must act! Actions, not mere words, determine the validity of a man's living philosophy.

He wanted a race of men who would no longer depend upon free will, ethics, morals or conscience for guidance. Perhaps, without quite realizing it, Marx was setting out to create a race of human beings conditioned to think like criminals.

Communism undertakes to replace Judaic-Christian morals with a complete absence of morals.

It is a terrible and awesome thing when a man sets out to create all other men in his own image. Such became the goal and all-consuming ambition of Karl Marx.

When Karl Marx was asked what his objective in life was, he said, "To dethrone God and destroy capitalism!

Thoughts on his own death, like the distant roll of thunder at a picnic.

Philosophy is the critically reflective, systematically articulated attempt to illumine our human experience in depth and set it in a vision of the whole.

This fundamental dimension of being itself, of the actual existence of what they are studying, is taken for granted by all other branches of knowledge, which then go on to study what it is and how it works. But just because something is taken for granted does not mean that it is unimportant.