Quotes about Philosophy

If I fought wild beasts in Ephesus for human motives, what did I gain? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”

See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, which are based on human tradition and the spiritual forces of the world rather than on Christ.

While a case can be made for intelligent design, I can't figure out why some Christians are so thrilled about that possibility. First of all, it doesn't prove there's a God. If anything, intelligent design lends support to some form of pantheism that defines God as immanent within nature.

The wise are wise only because they love. And the foolish are foolish only because they think they can understand love.

Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning.

LIVE. If you live, god will live with you. If you refuse to run his risks, he'll retreat to that distant heaven and be merely a subject for philosophical speculation.

I was not I, I was nothing - and that seemed to me quite marvelous.

You can't measure time the way you measure the distance between two points.

That the truest experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.

Vanity of vanities, all is vanity, and there is nothing new under the sun, as Solomon said more than three thousand years ago.

If someone comes to you with a gift, and you do not accept it, who does the gift belong to? - asked the Samurai.

Why am I unhappy? The question carries with it the virus that will destroy everything.