Quotes About Philosophy

Two centuries later, the Enlightenment transmuted Christian linearism into a complementary secular faith, what historian Carl Becker called "the heavenly city of the eighteenth-century philosophers"—the belief in indefinite scientific, economic, and political improvement.

We shall say without hesitation that the atheist who is moved by love is moved by the Spirit of God; an atheist who lives by love is saved by his faith in the God whose existence (under that name) he denies.

Read not for the facts but for the angles of thinking.

There's no end to the absurd things people will do trying to make life mean something.

Men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels, rather than elevated apes.

Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence.

Where the statue stoodOf Newton with his prism and silent face,The marble index of a mind foreverVoyaging through strange seas of thought, alone.

Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind.

A reasoning, self-sufficing thing,An intellectual All-in-all!

What though the radiance which was once so bright Be not forever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;Grief not, rather find, Strength in what remains behind, In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be, In the soothing thoughts that spring Out of Human suffering, In the faith that looks through death In years that bring philophic mind.

Splendour in the Grass What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower, We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind; In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be; In the soothing thoughts that spring Out of human suffering; In the faith that looks through death, In years that bring the philosophic mind. --

The mind of man is a thousand times more beautiful than the earth on which he dwells.

Great God! I'd rather be a Pagan....

And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind.

Sweet is the lore which nature brings; Our meddling intellect Misshapes the beauteous forms of things— We murder to dissect.

One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.

Our meddlesome intellect misshapen the beauteous form of things.

Plain living and high thinking.

Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind; In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be; In the soothing thoughts that spring Out of human suffering; In the faith that looks through death, In years that bring the philosophic mind.

My whole life I have lived in pleasant thought, As if life's business were a summer mood.

While I worked at the laboratory, I went from being a Zionist to becoming a Communist. Although the word, "Communist" isn't the right word. I didn't actually become a member of the party until the beginning of the war; and left it shortly after the war. "Marxist" is a better word, because Marx's idea, that all people should work according to their abilities and receive according to their needs, is actually a good solution; I still think so.

There is a little good in all evil.

Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.