Quotes About Philosophy

I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. There must be some human truth that is beyond religion.

Pero ¿es suficiente creer en el amor si uno no cree en la vida?

Jakie to ma znaczenie, ?e zostaÅ'eÅ› poczÄ™te przez przypadek bÄ…d? przez omyÅ'kÄ™ - czy Å›wiat, w którym znale?liÅ›my siÄ™, nie powstaÅ' przez przypadek czy przez omyÅ'kÄ™?

Il vero inquisitore è un uomo lugubre. Filosoficamente è il vero fascista, cioè il fascista privo di colore che serve tutti i fascismi, tutti i totalitarismi, tutti i regimi purché servano a mettere gli uomini in fila come croci in un cimitero. Lo trovi ovunque vi sia un'ideologia, un principio assoluto, una dottrina che proibisca all'individuo d'essere sé stesso.

Serce i mózg nie majÄ… pÅ'ci

myÅ›lÄ™, ?e to ludzie stworzyli Boga, a nie na odwrót. MyÅ›lÄ™, ?e ludzie wymyÅ›lili go z samotnoÅ›ci, bezsilnoÅ›ci, rozpaczy. Czyli po to, by da? odpowied? na zagadkÄ™ egzystencji, aby zÅ'agodzi? nierozwiÄ…zywalne pytania, które ?ycie rzuca nam w twarz... Kim jesteÅ›my, skÄ…d przybywamy, dokÄ…d idziemy.

Though I hear witchery referred to as a religion by the modern movement, this is not how the traditional witches originally described it to me. They described it more as a philosophy, a way of life, and even a set of techniques to make visible changes through working invisible means and by direct encounter and exchange.

It was not Marxism that made Lenin a revolutionary but Lenin who made Marxism revolutionary.

Ideas have enormous consequences in a person's life because you ultimately become what you believe.

I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

That man is intellectually of the mass who, in face of any problem, is satisfied with thinking the first thing he finds in his head. On the contrary, the excellent man is he who contemns what he finds in his mind without previous effort, and only accepts as worthy of him what is still far above him and what requires a further effort in order to be reached.

Pensar es un movimento natatorio para salvarse de la perdición en el caos

El ser es la balsa que el náufrago se construye con lo que le rodea... Tiene u caràcter puramente intrahumano, domestico. Fuera del hombre no hay ser porque aparece solo cuando se le busca.

Because man's being is made of strange stuff....

All good thinking is a matter of asking and answering three elementary questions. What is being said? Is it true? What of it?

What Socrates called the "unexamined life" that is "not worth living" now seems to be the life more people have slipped into than ever before.

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be. WILLIAM HAZLITT

The story is told of Socrates walking through the market in Athens, with its groaning abundance of options, and saying to himself, "Who would have thought that there could be so many things that I can do without?"4

God is his own best apologist.

When cultures reject God, they cut themselves off from the ultimate ground of reality

As Francis Schaeffer pointed out (and his whole apologetics turned on this point), "The more logical a non-Christian is to his own presuppositions, the further he is from the real world; and the nearer he is to the real world, the more illogical he is to his presuppositions."41 There

What a mystery, what an absurdity if not true, and if true what a wonder!

When a friend told Francis Bacon that he would prefer not to have an eternal soul than to live in eternal torment, the painter replied with a grim realism that people are "so attracted to their egos that they'd probably rather have the torment than simple annihilation.