Quotes about Philosophy
One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity.
— CS Lewis
The most useful truths are always universal, and unconnected with accidents and customs.
— Samuel Johnson
Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race.
— Victor Hugo
An important function of theology is to keep religion tied to reason and reason to religion. Both roles are of essential importance for humanity.
— Pope Benedict XVI
A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.
— George Bernard Shaw
I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
— Samuel Johnson
Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become us us if they were?
— CS Lewis
Ultimate seriousness in not without a dose of humor.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I am a confectionery-based existentialist.
— Bill Bailey
The materialist thinks me a slave because I am not allowed to believe in determinism. I think the materialist a slave because he is not allowed to believe in fairies.
— GK Chesterton
Opinion involves belief (for without belief in what we opine we cannot have an opinion), and in the brutes though we often find imagination we never find belief.
— Aristotle
For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the cause of truth, but its condition.
— CS Lewis