Quotes About Philosophy

Life and death are but phases of the same thing, the reverse and obverse of the same coin. Death is as necessary for man's growth as life itself.

We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer.

I refuse the oration of all churches. I ask a prayer of all souls. I believe in God.

A strong belief in fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand, there is a comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers.

What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.[Lincoln's maxim and philosophy]

What men usually ask of God when they pray is that two and two not make four.

My worldview, my philosophy, my attitudes, my relationships, my parenting, my marriage -- everything has been transformed by my relationship with Christ.

The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large.

Christianity is not a religion or a philosophy, but a relationship and a lifestyle. The core of that lifestyle is thinking of others, as Jesus did, instead of ourselves.

Since I was both an atheist and an absurdist, I had decided that the most absurd thing I could do would be to develop an intimate relationship with the God I didn't believe in.

Speaking with kindness creates confidence, thinking with kindness creates profoundness, giving with kindness creates love.

The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world.

The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness or sadness or friendship drives me nuts. I can't accept that.

All essential knowledge relates to existence, or only such knowledge as has an essential relationship to existence is essential knowledge.

An attitude of philosophic doubt, of suspended judgment, is repugnant to the natural man. Belief is an independent joy to him.

The study of proverbs may be more instructive and comprehensive than the most elaborate scheme of philosophy.

Seaford goes so far as to suggest that the money economy influenced Platonic and Aristotelian notions of the individual.

Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem (Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity.)

During the second half of the nineteenth century', wrote Gilbert's younger brother Cecil, 'the middle class was absolutely bubbling over with ideas…. It was rioting in its new-found intellectual liberty as heartily as the men of the Restoration rioted in their new-found moral liberty. Everywhere you found households where new theories of politics, philosophy, religion, or science were eagerly welcomed, debated, and

One should not increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of entities required to explain anything.

Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily.

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.

En realidad, muy de acuerdo con nuestra tradición mental, en la cual las palabras no sirven para nombrar las cosas sino para disfrazarlas, liberal y conservador no eran palabras que denotaran una filosofía, sino etiquetas que diferenciaban a los mismos protagonistas en distintos momentos de la rebatiña.