Quotes about Philosophy
Most of life is just a preparation for getting ready to be dead for a very long period of time.
— William Faulkner
The olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long.
— John Milton
Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy.
— John Milton
Others apart sat on a hill retir'd,In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high of Providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost.
— John Milton
The first and wisest of them all professed to know this only, that he nothing knew.
— John Milton
Relativism, as we saw in the previous chapter, undermines that effort. It kidnaps the happy handmaiden of truth and makes her serve the pride and pleasure of pragmatists. Relativists don't pursue truth. They make the denial of truth serve them.
— John Piper
Edwards's piety continued on in the revivalist tradition, his theology continued on in academic Calvinism, but there were no successors to his God-centered worldview or his profoundly theological philosophy. The disappearance of Edwards's perspective in American Christian history has been a tragedy. Mark Noll
— John Piper
Edwards believed his Biblical theology was, in fact, a true rendering of reality, and therefore could stand confidently in the marketplace of philosophical ideas and give an account of itself--which in his hands it would do.
— John Piper
Epistemology models ontology.
— John Polkinghorne
The short sayings of the wise and good men are of great value, like the dust of gold, or the sparks of diamonds.
— John Tillotson
it is good for a man to do right, and to leave happiness to take care of itself...
— Ellen Glasgow
Vain are the thousand creeds that move men's hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, or idlest froth amid the boundless main.
— Emily Bronte