Quotes about Philosophy

Not believing in God is a far more arduous affair than is generally imagined," Eagleton concludes.

why should we acquiesce in letting philosophical naturalists prescribe the definition of science itself? The only reason for restricting science to methodological naturalism is if we assume from the outset that philosophical naturalism is true—that nature is a closed system of cause and effect. But if it is not true, then restricting science to naturalistic theories is not a good strategy for getting at the truth.47

The danger is that is Christians do not consciously develop a biblical approach to a subject, then we will unconsciously absorb some other philosophical approach.

Secular ideologies preach liberty but practice tyranny.

A philosopher once noted that something is odd if a person is not liberal when he is young and conservative when he is old.

I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said 'Nic, it is what it is, it's not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is.'

One who claims to be a skeptic of one set of beliefs is actually a true believer in another set of beliefs.

Augustine was right when he said that we love the truth when it enlightens us, but we hate it when it convicts us.

Contrary to what is being taught in many public schools, truth is not relative but absolute. If something is true, it's true for all people, at all times, in all places.

Socrates once said that the unexamined life is not worth living.

Reality has grown old and gone senile; after all, it is definitely subject to the same laws as every living organism—it ages.

My life's harvest is not the building material for anything, neither in my time, now, nor in any other, never.