Quotes About Philosophy

I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it.

Plato and Aristotle.....survived to become the twin pillars of philosophic and scientific thinking in the Western world, supporting the massive edifice of Christianity. Plato's Theory of Forms, with it's inherent contempt for the physical world, and Aristotle's biological dualism, in which females were seen as failed males, provided the intellectual apparatus for the centuries of misogyny that were to follow.

In times like these And times like those What will be will be And so it goes

Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream

I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.

Aw, where we come from the Anti-Life Equation is one of many others--almost as awesome!! But they merely exist!!

Buddhist teachings are not a religion, they are a science of mind.

We need energy, commitment, and courage not to run from our life nor to cover it over with any philosophy—material or spiritual.

Religion and philosophy have their value, but in the end all we can do is open to mystery and live a path with heart, not idealistically, not without difficulties, but as a Buddha did, in the very midst of our humanness in our life on this earth. It is worth asking ourselves: What is it that we can see and know directly for ourselves? Are these simple truths not enough?

The dharma is a universal medicine.

Patience is a virtue best left to the dead, who can afford it,

Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?

What's the point of a god who never intervenes?

Religion is like having children, or taking medicine, or eating, or any of a thousand other perfectly rational human activities: Taken in small doses, it has much to recommend it. One need only avoid going overboard.

O time! The beautifier of the dead, Adorner of the ruin, comforter And only healer when the heart hath bled— Time! The corrector where our judgments err, The test of truth, love, sole philosopher. —Lord Byron, Childe Harold IV, 1818

Marxists believe culture and all its ideas are a result of economic conditions, intersectionalists believe group identity is paramount, and both views discard the individual as irrelevant.

I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.

I don't believe in philosophies. I believe in fundamentals.

Whatever theory of interpretation people use powerfully affects how they understand Scripture. Common Sense philosophy and Turretin's theology allowed seemingly good, intelligent, devout people to ignore the basic principles and lessons of Scripture and to brutalize other human beings by enslaving them.

The English department of the spirit—that great quagmire that lurks at the bottom of all of us.

I think you can't really escape any kind of spiritual education as a child, whether it's New Age or Judaism or Buddhism or whatever it is. You can't escape it, even if you completely disagree with it, you still have it as a foundation that you base things off of.

I no longer think time is passing. I now think reality is continuing.

I'm a strict materialist - but the police are brutal materialists.

supernatural, and my own rational philosophy is founded on proven science. But I still believe in hell." The dark man smiled. "For every man manufactures his own private hell and peoples it with demons of his own creation, to torment him for his own secret sins, imagined or real. It's my business to explore those personal hells and expose their demons for what they are. Usually they turn out to be much less terrifying than they seem.