Quotes About Philosophy

The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?

Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.

Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking.

he who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors

To think is to confine yourself to a single thought that one day stands still like a star in the world's sky.

What was Aristotle's life?' Well, the answer lay in a single sentence: 'He was born, he thought, he died.' And all the rest is pure anecdote.

The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.

Temporality temporalizes as a future which makes present in the process of having been.

The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

i dont live to eat i eat to live

If someone throws herself off a tall building, it may make sense to employ Newtonian physics in order to explain her immediate prospects. But it is also quite obvious that this explanation fails to address other important questions which we may wish to ask about that person's life and fate.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

Philosophy is the Devil's Whore

Whoever wants to be a Christian should tear the eyes out of his reason.

a quite novel kind of grammar and logic, according to which what is something is nothing

Satan has frightened men from reading the sacred writings, and has rendered Holy Scriptures contemptible, so as to ensure his poisonous philosophy to prevail in the church.

In the third section, you proceed to turn us into modest and peace-loving Epicureans.

Thus the Turks also regard us as damned because of the disasters and troubles we endure. But they promise themselves eternal happiness because they flourish in this life with wealth and power. This is the Egyptian philosophy and the Turkish religion. The Christian doctrine refutes it, as is taught elsewhere.

The doers are much more enlightened in faith than the speculative, as even the philosopher says in his Metaphysics,75 that an experienced person acts more surely.

Cary and Lilac both shared some sort of optimistic new-age philosophy, the general gist of which was that things usually turned out all right if you just expected them to. Their problems therefore settled, they carried on placing daisies in each other's hair.