Quotes About Philosophy

Equality is of two kinds, numerical and proportional; by the first I mean sameness of equality in number or size; by the second, equality of ratios.

There is no such thing as a false idea.

Government cannot kill the liberty to think. The idea, the thought, lives forever.

I'm a small government conservative.

No matter what theory of the origin of government you adopt, if you follow it out to its legitimate conclusions it will bring you face to face with the moral law.

I think that [there is] this fundamental right to privacy and the philosophy that government shouldn't be intrusive.

It's not what the world holds for you. It's what you bring to it.

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.

The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.

The great tragedy of atheists is that they walk through this world and have no one to thank.

It is not the strengths, but the durations of great sentiments that make great men.

Hanifs (Muslims) are stumbling, Christians all astray Jews wildered, Magians far on error's way. We mortals are composed of two great schools Enlightened knaves or else religious fools.

What I'm dealing with is so vast and great that it can't be called the truth. It's above the truth.

Death is a great tragedy…a profound loss…I don't accept it…I think people are kidding themselves when they say they are comfortable with death.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

People don't buy what you do; they buy what you stand for.

The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most beloved

Light griefs are plaintive , but great ones are dumb

Either Jesus is the Son of God ; or a madman or worse. But His being just a great teacher? He's not left that open to us.