Quotes About Philosophy

Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has: it never comes to the aid of spiritual things.

religion's for those who believe in hell and a spiritual belief is for those who've been there.

LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily apprehension of its loss; yet when lost it is not missed.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

There are two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are clearly absurd, and profound truths, recognised by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth

Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem.

"My former master taught me to accept birth and death." "Then what have you come to me for?" asked the master. "To learn to accept what lies in between."

I would call myself more spiritual than religious.

We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.

Yoga is an art, a science and a philosophy. It touches the life of man at every level, physical, mental, and spiritual. It is a practical method for making one's life purposeful, useful and noble.

Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.

Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised.

As morality seems to have supplanted civilization, I move on to the spiritual.

I find many of answers in the spiritual realm. That in no way compromises my ability to think rigorously as a scientist.

Art is not the spiritual side of business.

In the utmost solitudes of nature, the existence of hell seems to me as legibly declared by a thousand spiritual utterances as that of heaven.

I have not the slightest confidence in 'spiritual manifestations.'

I don't love the postmodern statement: "You shouldn't be spiritual if you are the artist."

Love may be the ultimate solution to all man's difficulties, problems and travails.

The ultimate design of the Mysteries ... was to lead us back to the principles from which we descended, ... a perfect enjoyment of intellectual [spiritual] good.

I consider myself more spiritual than religious.

Today, some of the most spiritual people I know claim to be without religion.

One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine.

Production is not something physical, material, and external; it is a spiritual and intellectual phenomenon.