Quotes About Philosophy

There is a biblical phrase "an eye for an eye," a philosophy of revenge, not justice. But Mahatma Ghandi warned that in a world ruled by an eye for an eye, soon the whole world will be blind.

It is odd that the Bible says, 'God created man,' whereas it is the other way round: man has created God. It is odd that the Bible says, 'The body is mortal, the soul is immortal,' whereas even here the contrary is true: the body (its matter) is eternal; the soul (the form of the body) is transitory.

Complex numbers taught me on reasonable philosophy; that you can imagine anything what you don't have in real life.

Therefore, as atheism is in all respects hateful, so in this, that it depriveth human nature of the means to exalt itself, above human frailty.

For in knowledge man's mind suffereth from sense: but in belief it suffereth from spirit.

In true metaphysics I believe that, contrary to common opinion, unbelief far oftener needs a reason and requires an effort than belief.

Great and terrible systems of divinity and philosophy lie round about us, which, if true, might drive a wise man mad.

The greatest enjoyment possible to man was that which this philosophy promises its votaries--the pleasure of being always right, and always reasoning--without ever being bound to look at anything.

I published only in academic journals in philosophy until I was in my 40s, but I had been writing fiction and poetry my whole adult life - without ever once trying to publish it, and rarely letting anyone read it.

Rarely do you meet an American who knows his Wordsworth.

A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.

We have no rational evidence that there exists another world, but we have a clear feeling that man does not exist only to produce and to consume.

I find humanism to be the most rational and positive philosophy for life. And it's not a new thing at all - the history of humanist thought is deep and inspiring.

As a physicist, I've always found cosmology to be a rational elixir; it distances me from ordinary concerns.

Hate is irrational. I am a rational person.

What's really great about Buddhism is its rational, informal quality. Coming from my experience of growing up a Catholic, I found Buddhism to be refreshingly easygoing and forgiving.

The Christian image of God is that of a rational being who believes in human progress.

As humans, we are not so rationalist as we think we are. I think our biggest quality is indeed that we are human, truly human: if our biggest quality would be rationality, we would lose our soul.

In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.

I'm an advocate for if you take something, you have to give something back, and I think Raw Spirit shares that philosophy. I love that it gives back to the communities they partner with. It's just truly a pure of hearted company.

Stoicism is a philosophy designed for the masses, and if it has to be simplified a bit to reach the masses, so be it.

My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.

We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.

My master's was in economics, and my Ph.D. was in philosophy, and I became a professor at USP. But after three years, I was invited to be secretary of finance for Sao Paulo mayor Marta Suplicy. They reached out to be because of my economics background.