Quotes About Philosophy

What is evil?-Whatever springs from weakness.

Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin.

Ideas are the greatest and most crucially practical power on earth.

In Shankaracharya we saw tremendous intellectual power, throwing the scorching light of reason upon everything.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

The most intimate question we can ask, and the one that has the most spiritual power, is this: What or who am I?

Schopenhauer had been Hitler's philosophical god in the early days. In power it was Nietzsche.

The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.

Man made God in his own image.

I'm an Atheist. I don't believe in God, Gods, Godlets or any sort of higher power beyond the universe itself, which seems quite high and powerful enough to me.

It is beyond my power to induce in you a belief in God. There are certain things which are self proved and certain which are not proved at all.

The wise man should withdraw his soul within, out of the crowd, and keep it in freedom and power to judge things freely; but as for externals, he should wholly follow the accepted fashions and forms.

You find yourself in the world, without any power, immovable as a rock, stupid, so to speak, as a log of wood.

Until philosophers hold power, neither states nor individuals will have rest from trouble.

The writers of the French enlightenment had deliberately used blasphemy as a weapon, refusing to accept the power of the Church to set limiting points on thought.

So, to detract from the perfection of creatures is to detract from the perfection of divine power.

Do not allow yourself to imagine that revolutionary thinking can be propagated by governmental power.

The Country is both the Philosopher's Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God.

To be or not to be that is the question.

Universe is a giant with his body and we humans are a giant with our minds!

The Christian on his knees sees more than the philosopher on tiptoe. God sends no one away empty except those who are full of themselves.

I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.

I know of no more beautiful prayer than that which the Hindus of old used in closing: May all that have life be delivered from suffering.

It is vain to ask of the gods what man is capable of supplying for himself.