Philosophy Quotes
Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?
If we cannot comprehend God in his visible works, how then in his inconceivable thoughts, that call the works into being?
The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift from God, the Source of law.
The same word we love and hate, leaves in different directions, taking different paths.
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
A few dud universes can really clutter up your basement.
Philosophers can debate the meaning of life, but you need a Lord who can declare the meaning of life.
The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.
Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.
You not only are hunted by others, you unknowingly hunt yourself.
Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.
You asked me how to get out of the finite dimensions when I feel like it. I certainly don't use logic when I do it. Logic's the first thing you have to get rid of.
I remember growing up, saying you’re an artist it sounds pretentious but now it’s one of the only dignified things that you can call yourself.
Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem, government IS the problem. It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so.
Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.
It is within science itself, and not in some prior philosophy, that reality is to be identified and described.
Infinity is the end. End without infinity is but a new beginning.
A breeze, a forgotten summer, a smile, all can fit into a storefront window.
Nanny's philosophy of life was to do what seemed like a good idea at the time, and do it as hard as possible. It had never let her down.
Alas, Siddhartha, I see you suffering, but you're suffering a pain at which one would like to laugh, at which you'll soon laugh for yourself.
We get swallowed up by the illusion that unless we can find a place to belong, we are going to be all alone in the world.
This seems to me a philosophical question, and therefore irrelevant, question. A poet's destiny is to love.
Know yourself fearlessly (even quietly) for all the things you are.
Knowing God is like listening to beautiful music. His words have power. He lifts me up & soothes my soul. He makes me dance. He gives me joy.
I am a misanthrope and yet utterly benevolent, have more than one screw loose yet am a super-idealist who digests philosophy more efficiently than food.
My philosophy is to take one day at a time. I don't worry about the future. Tomorrow is even out of sight for me.
I have, alas! Philosophy, Medicine, Jurisprudence too, And to my cost Theology, With ardent labor, studied through. And here I stand, with all my lore, Poor fool, no wiser than before.
There's nothing in the future and there's nothing in the past. There is only this one moment, and you've got to make it last.
The chief business of seventeenth-century philosophy was to reckon with seventeenth-century science... the chief business of twentieth-century philosophy is to reckon with twentieth-century history.
The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.
People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy.
Eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period.
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values.
I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought.
The real breeders of discontent and alien doctrines of government and philosophies subversive of good citizenship are such as these who take the law into their own hands.
Live each day, as if it we're your last. It's written in the stars, your destiny is cast.
There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born.
Science was born as a result and consequence of philosophy; it cannot survive without a philosophical base. If philosophy perishes, science will be next to go.
Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it.
Is the ground a philosophical concept? Has mind a relationship to the ground? Is it an idea to be investigated? Is the ground put together by thought?