Quotes About Philosophy

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later [1978]

God's weapons are His Word, wisdom, and counsel. Worldly weapons are society's philosophy, culture, customs, laws, or lifestyles that are contrary to God's Word. You may question, "The world has weapons?" Oh yes, there is a continual onslaught of hell via the world's system to compromise the Christian and unbeliever alike.

Do you think . . . ? 'I do sometimes, my boy,'admitted the old man. 'When I can't avoid it.

Le hizo comprender que era posible que el tiempo siguiera su curso, pero que las ideas de algunas personas quedarían enquistadas para siempre.

Hay mas cosas en el cielo y en la tierra que todas las que pueda soñar la filosofía.

A line came into my mind, something that Hannah Arendt had once said about the poet Auden: that life had manifested the heart's invisible furies on his face. He looked a hundred years old. He looked like a man who had died several months earlier. He looked like a soul in pure torment.

The problem of evil may be more accurately described as the mystery of evil.

Throughout history, only a small number of people have done the serious thinking for everybody.

But I thought you were dead,' I put in. 'Mors janua vitae,' he smiled.

What you believe identifies who you are.

As Nobel prize– winning author Alexander Solzhenitsyn noted, "The meaning of earthly existing lies, not as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering, but in the development of the soul.

to put it as philosopher-poet Ralph Waldo Emerson did, "To be simple is to be great.

OTTO. Apes don't read philosophy. WANDA. Yes they do, Otto. They just don't understand it.

Up is infinite. Down is infinite. Pantheism, dualism, pluralism!

If there is some monstrous consciousness behind all life,' he thought angrily, 'it's responsible for all the horrors! Come

And he recalled what Jason Otter had said about pity: how if you had pity and there was one miserable consciousness left in the universe, you had no right to be happy.

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

One day I hope to find that tomorrow will not matter. Everything I thought I desired was yesterday. For all I needed was today.

Rather than jumping from one shallow happiness to another shallow happiness and wasting your life, it is better to use sadness as a means for meditation.

The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness

Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping?

Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.

We are born to inquire into truth; it belongs to a greater to possess it