Quotes about Philosophy

Thinking Christians think in believing and they believe in thinking.

Biography can overwhelm philosophy in the best of us.

Life is much more than reason, so it can never be captured and explained by reason alone—crucial and valuable though reason is. Apply reason as carefully and systematically as you like, and there will always be things it cannot explain, things that simply will not fit into its categories, however hard you push, press and pull.

For all of us, the time is short and the span of life is brief On top of that, our real human problem, the Stoic philosopher Seneca said in a direct rebuke to the modern illusion, is not just that life is short but that we waste so much of it-so that life ceases for us "just when we are getting ready for it."35 But

For any follower of Jesus Christ who follows this path on the quest for meaning, the statement is true: A Christian thinks in believing and believes in thinking.

Christians," as that crusty old philosopher Bertrand Russell used to quip, "would sooner die than think—in fact they do.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

A cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

My strong advice to you is to soak, soak, soak in philosophy and psychology, until you know more of these subjects than ever you need consciously to think. It is ignorance of these subjects on the part of ministers and workers that has brought our evangelical theology to such a sorry plight. . . . The man who reads only the Bible does not, as a rule, know it or human life.

Beauty?... To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to.

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.