Quotes About Philosophy

Happy, for instance, once meant luck. Not good luck or bad, just luck. Look what we have done to ourselves. We think we can actually pursue happiness.

An unexamined life may not be worth living, but the overexamined life is hell. We talk too much.

Nearly anything that can be said about Hinduism can be contradicted by something else that is equally true about it, and nothing whatever that is said about it can be entirely true or entirely false

Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man's attitude toward history and nature.

A world without time would be a world without God, a world existing in and by itself, without renewal, without a Creator.

Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man's attitude toward history and nature.

Theology starts with dogmas, philosophy begins with problems. Philosophy sees the problem first, theology has the answer in advance

The Greeks learned in order to comprehend. The Hebrews learned in order to revere. The modern man learns in order to use.

The ultimate concept in Greek philosophy is the idea of cosmos, of order; the first teaching in the Bible is the idea of creation. Translated into eternal principles, cosmos means fate, while creation means freedom. The essential meaning of creation is not the idea that the universe was created at a particular moment in time. The essential meaning of creation is, as Maimonides explained, the idea that the universe did not come about by necessity but as a result of freedom.

Philosophers do not expend their power and passion unless they themselves are affected. The soul only communes with itself when the heart is stirred.

philosophy of religion comes into being when both religion and philosophy claim to offer ideas about ultimate problems.

Philosophy of religion is involved in a polarity; like an ellipse it revolves around two foci: philosophy and religion.

Philosophy of religion conducted in this manner, then, celebrates humility before the divine, since the awareness of God's overwhelming priority decenters us and puts us in our proper place.

The role of religion is to be a challenge to philosophy, not merely an object for examination.

The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words, And this too, shall pass away. How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!

Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)

My earlier views of the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures have become clearer and stronger with advancing years, and I see no reason for thinking I shall ever change them.

He whose wisdom surpasses that of all philosophers, has declared that 'a house divided against itself cannot stand

The most altruistic man is the most selfish.

And this, too, shall pass away.

And this, too, shall pass away.' How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!

Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good. Let us therefore study the incidents of this, as philosophy to learn wisdom from.

I never tire of reading Tom Paine .