Quotes about Philosophy
God is that, the greater than which cannot be conceived.
— Anselm of Canterbury
Never judge a philosophy by its abuse
— St. Augustine
Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
— St. Augustine
What then is time? Provided that no one asks me, I know. If I want to explain it to an inquirer, I do not know.
— St. Augustine
In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
The science of mathematics treats its object as though it were something abstracted mentally, whereas it is not abstract in reality.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
What a joy to know where one is, and where one will stay, without being there. Nothing to do but stretch out comfortably on the rack, in the blissful knowledge you are nobody for all eternity. A pity I should have to give tongue at the same time, it prevents it from bleeding in peace, licking the lips.
— Samuel Beckett
Nothing to be done. I'm beginning to come round to that opinion.
— Samuel Beckett
In me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.
— Samuel Beckett
If by Godot I had meant God I would have said God, and not Godot.
— Samuel Beckett
If I was dead, I wouldn't know I was dead. That's the only thing I have against death. I want to enjoy my death.
— Samuel Beckett