Philosophical Quotes
Philosophical Quote of the day
Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.
There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
I have looked into most philosophical systems and I have seen that none will work without God.
The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.
Our tools are extensions of our purposes, and so we find it natural to make metaphorical attributions of intentionality to them; but I take it no philosophical ice is cut by such examples.
I believe there is no philosophical high-road in science, with epistemological signposts. No, we are in a jungle and find our way by trial and error, building our road behind us as we proceed.
The Bible is authoritative on everything of which it speaks. Moreover, it speaks of everything.
Between the conception and the creation, between the emotion and the response, Falls the shadow.
The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem.
To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi)." Or, "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?
Get married, in any case. If you happen to get a good mate, you will be happy; if a bad one, you will become philosophical, which is a fine thing in itself.
