Quotes About Philosophy

That's the underlying philosophy of Chinese driving courses: if something is technically difficult, then in must be useful.

Truth cannot be verified by the scientific method. How could you prove that Truth is true? Truth cannot be verified by the scientific method...let alone Love, Reason, Spirit, or you.

Pagan philosophers saw human qualities mirrored in nature and cast these giant reflections of themselves as gods. It is therefore unsurprising that most pagan cosmologies contain a complete spectrum of our psychology in god form.

Religion asks why. Science asks how.

Rationality is simply mysticism misunderstood.

G]radually, skillfully, [Parmenides] conjures up the image of us humans as stuck at this place where the road divides—unable to decide between the two paths, incapable even of seeing what the choice involves, just dithering in the space in between.

The idea of good and evil has thus nothing to do with religion or a mystic conscience. It is a natural need of animal races. And when founders of religions, philosophers, and moralists tell us of divine or metaphysical entities, they are only recasting what each ant, each sparrow practices in its little society. Is this useful to society? Then it is good. Is this hurtful? Then it is bad.

Solomonís wisdom was greater than that of all the men of the East, greater than all the wisdom of Egypt.

He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth upon nothing.

But where can wisdom be found, and where does understanding dwell?

From where then does wisdom come, and where does understanding dwell?

These are the words of the Teacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem:

So they brought it, and He asked them, “Whose image is this? And whose inscription?” “Caesarís,” they answered.

“What is truth?” Pilate asked. And having said this, he went out again to the Jews and told them, “I find no basis for a charge against Him.

Some Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also began to debate with him. Some of them asked, “What is this babbler trying to say?” Others said, “He seems to be advocating foreign gods.” They said this because Paul was proclaiming the good news of Jesus and the resurrection.

So they took Paul and brought him to the Areopagus, where they asked him, “May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting?

For you are bringing some strange notions to our ears, and we want to know what they mean.”

Now all the Athenians and foreigners who lived there spent their time doing nothing more than hearing and articulating new ideas.

Then Paul stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said, “Men of Athens, I see that in every way you are very religious.

For as I walked around and examined your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore what you worship as something unknown, I now proclaim to you.

At that, Paul left the Areopagus.

Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

Jews demand signs and Greeks search for wisdom,

See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, which are based on human tradition and the spiritual forces of the world rather than on Christ.