Quotes About Philosophy

Perhaps in the end, it should be left alone as a reminder that life isn't perfect, but even with it's imperfections it is worthwhile and enjoyable. Wouldn't it be great if more people thought that?

Our thoughts and our mind-sets greatly affect our perception of what life is really about

Answers don't actually matter that much, it's what you chose to believe

Have you questioned reality today?

There is no fact or fiction, only imagined truths.

Quotes are just words, meaning is created by mind.

I refuse to believe in three things: cash, clock, and calendar. You should never be enslaved by these three.

The question isn't whether the world is perfect.The real question to consider is: If it were, would you still be in it?

We all know that the un-examined life is not worth living (socrates). But if all you are doing is examining, you are not living.

There is always a double meaning in life...

Something will work out tomorrow, I thought. And if not, then tomorrow I'll do some thinking. Ob—la-di, ob-la-da, life goes on.

Imagination is the wonder of the wise.

Once you come to terms with why you don't eat cats, dogs, monkeys, and dolphins, you will begin to understand why I don't eat cows, pigs, chickens, and lambs.

Isn't it true that philosophy is a barrier? For sure it screens and modifies every bit of information that the mind allows to enter.

Often morality defines our inner philosophy.

Philosophy has no value in a true sense, but it adds and defines value to our lives.

There is an intimate connection between our moral life and our intellectual life. Sometimes I think the history of our times can be described as an argument about whether or not this connection is true.

The truth will not only "make us free" but it is itself free. We all come in fact to know the same truth, otherwise we could not communicate at all with one another. This is why the modern-day denial of truth is, at the same time, a denial of real human communication and, consequently, in place of truth, an exhalation of power.

At first sight, it seems that something, almost anything, must be done about our situation. But it is the genius of Pieper to see that this activist, busy motion is the wrong starting point. Before we can pretend to do anything about the present, we must know what we are, what the world is, and yes, what God is. Construction of a civilization that knows little or nothing of these deeper realities can only make things worse.

Buddha is quoted as saying, "Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

If your belief in how the Universe works isn't prompting you to be a kind person, then perhaps it's time to rethink your belief system, because something is obviously not working for you.

the existence of the moral sense is a signal that there is an ought, something other than, and transcendent over, what is. We will look again at this signal when we examine how

So what is a worldview? Essentially this: A worldview is a commitment, a fundamental orientation of the heart, that can be expressed as a story or in a set of presuppositions (assumptions which may be true, partially true or entirely false) that we hold (consciously or subconsciously, consistently or inconsistently) about the basic constitution of reality, and that provides the foundation on which we live and move and have our being.

universes fashioned by words and concepts that work together to provide a more or less coherent frame of reference for all thought and action.5