Quotes About Philosophy

In other studies, the philosophy is made explicit by a special section in the study—typically in the description of the characteristics of qualitative inquiry often found in the methods section. Here the inquirer talks about ontology, epistemology, and other assumptions explicitly and details how they are exemplified in the study. The

An omniscient being could not be ignorant of anything, so an omniscient being would not know something. He could not know ignorance.

How can God be unchanging or immutable if he is supposedly reacting to the events in the universe and the choices we make?

Whereas Nature does not admit of more than three dimensions ... it may justly seem very improper to talk of a solid ... drawn into a fourth, fifth, sixth, or further dimension.

Have something to believe in; have a reason to believe in it, but stay open-minded.

Sometime you can do everything right and still lose. It's all a journey. You do your best, and then you have to let it go. Lots of people preach that, but come crunch time—oops, not so easy to do.

I believe that things are directed in some sort of way. I'm not exactly sure how. I also believe that things turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turn out.

I have prepared for death all of my life by the life I lived." Socrates was at peace with himself.

Socrates was famous in Athens for saying, "Know thyself." It is said that one of his students said to him: "Socrates, you go around saying 'Know thyself,' but do you know yourself?" Socrates was said to have replied, "No, but I understand something about this not knowing.

Everything can be taken from a human being but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

You do not have to be religious to be spiritual and moral.

Reason and Faith are no more antithetical than the mind and the heart, for neither one exists or has meaning without the other". ~R. Alan Woods [2012]

Every agnostic has a minister, Mike. Otherwise, they's be atheists.

God is The Reasonable One, therefore reason & faith are not antithetical" ~R. Alan Woods [2007]

I know it does not matter that I do not understand.

For the believer there is no question for the non-believer there is no answer.

There lives more faith in honest doubt Believe me than in half the creeds.

The revolution is carried out by means of one's thought.

My religion is complicated. Literature is my true religion. After all, I come from a completely non-religious family.

Did you think I was immortal?

William Shakespeare, Hamlet

The dream of reason produces monsters

Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters

Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy which we call mathematics.