Quotes about Philosophy
Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
— Samuel Beckett
Words are but the signs of ideas.
— Samuel Johnson
Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.
— Samuel Johnson
I am not yet so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.
— Samuel Johnson
He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.
— Samuel Johnson
He takes men out of time and makes them feel eternity.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Well, sir, if things are real, they're there all the time." "Are they?" said the Professor; and Peter did not quite know what to say.
— CS Lewis
A lot of people don't give much thought to what they believe, and it's easy for them to hold what often are two conflicting ideas in their head at the same time.
— Lee Strobel
For what is time? ... Who can even in thought comprehend it, so as to utter a word about it? ... If no one asks me, I know: If I wish to explain it to one that asketh, I know not.
— St. Augustine
In the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was logic.
— GK Chesterton
I always adhered to the idea that God is time, or at least that His spirit is.
— Joseph Brodsky
This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time. Seneca Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
— Aristotle