Quotes about Philosophy

everything is foreordained and it was bound to happen anyway. But even so, it's nice to think one was an instrument used by predestination.

I wonder, said Miss Oliver, if humanity will be any happier because of aeroplanes. It seems to me that the sum of human happiness remains much the same from age to age, no matter how it may vary in distribution, and that all the 'many inventions' neither lessen nor increase it.

We all come back to God in these days of soul-sifting, said Gertrude to John Meredith. There have been many days in the past when I didn't believe in God—not as God—only as the impersonal Great First Cause of the scientists. I believe in Him now—I have to—there's nothing else to fall back on but God—humbly, starkly, unconditionally.

if I wasn't ME who'd I be?

Sometimes I wonder whether religion has been a curse or blessing to the world. It has much that is beautiful in it but it seems also to have caused hideous suffering

It is of no avail to know what is about to happen; for it is a sad thing to be grieved when grief can do no good.

The more I study science, the more I believe in God.

I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.

Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?

It gives me a deep comforting sense that Things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal.

We live in the most probable of all possible worlds.

Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.