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Quotes About Philosophy

The law is reason, free from passion.
~ Aristotle
Do yourself a favor. Don't ever say to me, 'Everything happens for a reason.'
~ Neil Peart
The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.
~ David Hume
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
~ Immanuel Kant
Reason is immortal, all else mortal.
~ Pythagoras
Reason is the enemy of faith.
~ Martin Luther
Law is mind without reason.
~ Aristotle
We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.
~ Thomas Paine
The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself.
~ Johann Georg Hamann
Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
~ Michel de Montaigne
All that is real is reasonable, and all that is reasonable is real.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
I believe any question that man can ask has a reasonable answer-at least an answer that is as consistent with God's existence as it is in opposition to God's existence.
~ John Clayton
I've always thought things were absurd. It would take a lot more effort for me to see things as reasonable.
~ Joshua Ferris
A lot of fiction doesn't answer a question that any reasonable person would ever ask.
~ Elif Batuman
In order to reason, you need a network to be able to bring in knowledge from several different areas, such as math, science, and philosophy, to reach reasonable conclusions on what it's been tasked with.
~ Jeff Dean
My philosophy - inclusive and pluralist Islam, dedicated to service to human beings from every faith - is antithetical to armed rebellion.
~ Fethullah Gulen
Having proceeded to this length, for which they are now ripe, we shall have a formidable rebellion against reason, the principle of all government, and against the very name of liberty.
~ Henry Knox
The way myself and my brothers have been brought up is that you don't give to receive, you give to give, and that is the way life is.
~ Trent Alexander-Arnold
I received my high school baccalaureate diploma in Latin and Science in 1928, then my two baccalaureate diplomas in Mathematics and Philosophy in 1929.
~ Maurice Allais
It's just the absolute bomb. Ghost in the Shell was really good, it's a little bit more recent.
~ James Marsters
In recent years there's been a lot of philosophical theorising about how important magic is, and how it takes us back to a childlike state of astonishment. I think all this is just nonsense. Magic isn't meaningful or important other than how you're performing it in that moment.
~ Derren Brown
The concept of a 'job' is pretty recent. If you go back a few hundred years, everyone was either a slave or a serf, or living off slave or serf labor to pursue science or philosophy or art.
~ Steve Jurvetson
Recipes are overrated.
~ Jose Andres