Quotes About Philosophy

Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason.

Ideology is the light that creates darkness.

It is my intent to beget a good understanding between the chymists and the mechanical philosophers who have hitherto been too little acquainted with one another's learning.

There is no tomorrow. There is only a planet turning on its axis, and a creature given to optimistic fancies.

After 5000 years of recorded human history, you wonder, What part of 2,000,000 sunrises doesn't a pessimist understand?

If I choose abstraction over reality, it is because I find it the lesser chaos.

Man is the only animal who enjoys the consolation of believing in a next life; all other animals enjoy the consolation of not worrying about it.

There was never a wise saying that couldn't be made wiser by adding the words, "and vice-versa."

In comparing religious belief to science, I try to remember that science is belief also.

The aphorist sees in every truth a wise saying, and in every contradiction, two wise sayings.

I am not certain of the hereafter. Frankly, I'm not all that certain of the here.

In the end the reason for anything is inseparable from the reason for everything.

After a lifetime of deep thought, I've decided that life is a distraction, but probably not from anything important.

In many areas of understanding, none so much as in our understanding of God, we bump up against a simplicity so profound that we must assign complexities to it to comprehend it at all. It is mindful of how we paste decals to a sliding glass door to keep from bumping our nose against it.

If there be no God, then what is truth but the average of all lies.

They are trying to explain what is not explainable. That is why many young people try to find something idealistic in dao – because they need something to live.

Pure Reason left to herself relieth on axioms and essential premises which she can neither question nor resolve.

What so wild as words are?

All we have gained then by our unbelief Is a life of doubt diversified by faith, For one of faith diversified by doubt: We called the chess-board white -- we call it black.

That's all we may expect of man, this side. The grave: his good is—knowing he is bad.

He said, "What's time? Leave Now for dogs and apes!Man has Forever."

If there's another world, he lives in bliss;If there is none, he made the best of this.

Nature's law,That man was made to mourn.

Everything, saith Epictetus, hath two handles,the one to be held by, the other not.