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Quotes About Philosophy

The only thing certain is nothing is certain.
~ Michel de Montaigne
We are what we think.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
If you look long enough into the void, the void begins to look back through you.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
~ John Ruskin
I cannot be angry at God, in whom I do not believe.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.
~ Lin Yutang
I am not absolutely positive there is no god. Only in the sense that I'm not absolutely positive there is no large china teapot in orbit in the solar system.
~ Richard Dawkins
Through working in harmony with life's circumstances, Taoist understanding changes what others may percieve as negative into something positive.
~ Benjamin Hoff
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
~ Denis Diderot
You and I are not what we eat; we are what we think.
~ Walter Inglis Anderson
Any positive thinker is compelled to see everything in the light of his own convictions.
~ Antoinette Brown Blackwell
I am positive I have a soul; nor can all the books with which materialists have pestered the world ever convince me to the contrary.
~ Laurence Sterne
[I'm] almost positive there is no God.
~ Sarah Silverman
To give emphasis only to beauty makes me think of a mathematics that deals with positive numbers only.
~ Paul Klee
Can a man cling to the positive without any negative in contrast to which it is seen to be positive? If he claims to do so he is a rouge or a madman.
~ Zhuangzi
Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God; this saves much wear and tear on the brain tissues.
~ Edward Abbey
Change lays her hand not upon the truth.
~ Algernon Swinburne
Beyond positive and negative, what is Reality?
~ Alan Watts
A belief is not true simply because it is useful.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
Atheism is without God. It does not assert no God.
~ Charles Bradlaugh
I'm not a proper anything. Majoring in philosophy kind of turns positive assertions into maybes.
~ Kevin Hearne
And can anything else that is useful be accomplished without change? Do you not see then that for yourself also to change is just the same, and equally necessary for the universal nature?
~ Marcus Aurelius
If God is God He is not good, if God is good He is not God; take the even, take the odd.
~ Archibald MacLeish
Life is not logic, life is not philosophy. Life is a dance, a song, a celebration! It is more like love and less like logic.
~ Rajneesh