Quotes About Philosophy

la lógica no existe, Miyuki, no hay lógica, no hay dioses, todo lo hace la casualidad, y lo hace bien.

Mais je n'ai jamais su être égoïste longtemps – peut-être parce que je n'ai rien à défendre. J'ai

C'est vrai, alors, que l'on devient si vite égoïste lorsque l'on est heureux ?

Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor.

We have to learn that personal suffering is a more effective key, a more rewarding principle for exploring the world in thought and action than personal good fortune.

For we cannot speak of the beginning; where the beginning begins our thinking stops, it comes to an end.

Simplicity is an intellectual achievement, one of the greatest.

Where the beginning begins, there our thinking stops; there it comes to an end.121

God is never in the world in any way except in his absolute transcendence of it.

God as a working hypothesis in morals, politics, or science has been surmounted and abolished; and the same thing has happened in philosophy and religion (Feuerbach!). For the sake of intellectual honesty, that working hypothesis should be dropped, or as far as possible eliminated.

The fact that he was ashamed when he was discovered praying was for Kant an argument against prayer. He failed to see that prayer by its very nature is a matter for the strictest privacy, and he failed to perceive the fundamental significance of shame for human existence.

A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol

Dietrich von Hildebrand

Atheism is not a matter of the mind; it is a matter of the heart.

To be sure, there were attempts at translating the philosophy that was written in Greek into other languages – the presumed intention being to implant it in the cultures of the target languages – but such attempts, in the end, did not produce the intended results.

I would argue that the issue of God and the issue of science have the same roots.

Christianity has always embraced both reason and faith.

In philosophy seminars, the choice is usually between good and evil. In the real world, however, the choice is often between a bad guy and a worse guy.

Time is the image of eternity.

One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist.

Plato having defined man to be a two-legged animal without feathers, Diogenes plucked a cock and brought it into the Academy, and said, "This is Plato's man." On which account this addition was made to the definition: "With broad flat nails."

The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.

In brief, the Tree of Life is a compendium of science, psychology, philosophy and theology.