Quotes About Philosophy

One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.

'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.

In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.

If God could make angels, why did he bother with men?

Faith is the belief in the invisible. It would be a dull world, indeed, if only the visible were reality.

Buhhdism is wisdom. As long as we have wisdom, we can put all things to the best use, we can turn everything in the direction of happiness.

From ancient times, those systems of thought that merit the name 'philosophy' or 'religion' have developed an all-embracing worldview with at least two dimensions. The first is a theory of value, or ethics, that relates to how human life should be lived. The second is a theory of being, or ontology, which posits the structure of existence, or of the world.

In Buddhism we have relative truth and absolute truth.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your own heart is the temple. Your philosophy is simple kindness.

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples my philosophy is kindness.

Some mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years, always there. In future, also.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple the philosophy is kindness.

Trees have no dogmas. Turnips are singularly broad-minded.

All proof begins with something which cannot be proved, but can only be perceived or accepted, and is called an axiom or first principle.

Chesterton says that thinking is the hardest work in the world. And hard work, he says, is repugnant to our nature.

Those who merely denounce intolerance seem to have no theory at all with which to defend toleration.

All Christianity concentrates on the man at the cross-roads. The vast and shallow philosophies, the huge syntheses of humbug, all talk about ages and evolution and ultimate developments. The true philosophy is concerned with the instant. Will a man take this road or that?

We have reinforced this limited choice by putting socialism in our left hand and capitalism in our right hand, leaving no other hands. The

When Chesterton says we must not trust humanity, he especially reminds us not to put too much trust in politics or in whatever political party we pick. We generally expect too much from political parties, but none of them is based on any permanent philosophy, and, because of that, at some point they will conflict with faith.

Man can be defined as an animal that makes dogmas. As he piles doctrine on doctrine and conclusion on conclusion in the formation of some . . . philosophy or religion, he is . . . becoming more and more human. When

If truth is relative, to what is it relative?

Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life.

It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.