Quotes About Philosophy

When a man begins to justify the ways of God to man, he has entered on a very dangerous process.

For the man who does not want God of course will not find him; and the man who is busy searching for something else will not find God; and certainly the man who has coined the atrophy of faculty into a philosophy that the Eternal and the Invisible cannot be seen or known, cannot see or know.

It is in an especial degree the tendency of the present age to deal only with tangible truths. Reason is the highpriest of the Nineteenth Century. It knows only the phenomena which the senses report to it. Its philosophy scouts the aphorism of Pascal, " The heart has reasons of its own that the reason knows not of." It tries every teaching by scientific tests; weighs moral truths in the apothecary's scales; sends divine and unseen realities to the chemists to be analyzed and tested.

How is it that you wrenched apart that which is inseparable? Why did you create the Either/Or? Flesh or spirit, body or soul, thinking or feeling.

We forget that Socrates was famed for wisdom not because he was omniscient but because he realized at the age of seventy that he still knew nothing.

Christianity isn't true because it works; it works because it's true.

Where Buddhist teachings contradict science, science should prevail,

For centuries, vampire philosophers had argued that their treatment of humans was kinder; they took only the blood in their veins. Nonvampires took the sweat of their brow, the fire in their belly, and the joy in their heart.

Juvenal, another non-Christian writer of Rome, tells us that "fools seek revenge, philosophers forgive.

the ontological argument for the existence of God.

We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man.

I always thought a laughing philosopher a much wiser man than the sniveling one (cmizdrenje)

The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan.

My work is a game, a very serious game.

We might say that Western thinking is uniformly dualistic in its nature, whereas Eastern thinking is founded upon monism, whose overarching conception of reality is based on a single unifying principle rather than paired opposites.

M. Mitchell Waldrop

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." —Søren Kierkegaard

If you have no philosophical ground for your work, you have no place to stand from which to make decisions. Ethical ones, moral ones.

If you have no philosophical ground for your work, you have no place to stand from which to make decisions. Ethical ones, moral ones. You won't know the boundaries of your duty, and what you owe your gods—assuming you have any—the world, and your fellow men and women.

There is living and there is death," the Emperor said. "Pain is irrelevant unless it leads to the latter.

It was fundamental to Plato, and to the mainstream of classical Greek philosophy after him, that men are created unequal; not merely in the superficial sense of inequality in physique, wealth or social position, but unequal in their souls, morally unequal. A few men are potentially capable of completely rational behaviour, and hence of correct moral judgment; most men are not.

Dear reader. Dear, dear reader. Here we find ourselves, you and me, engaged in a book in which someone has just exclaimed, in all seriousness, 'The sentient lobsters!' How did we end up here? Did we make some mistake along the way?

Everyone who was born had to die; those who died would be reborn again. The killer and the slain: these were terms that had no meaning. The soul could never be destroyed. The soul discards a worn-out body for a new one as human beings discard old clothes for new, said Krishna, and there was nothing in this to grieve about.

I'm sick of your male chauvinism. No wonder Confucius wasn't welcomed during his travels - jabbering on about male superiority all the time!