Quotes about Philosophy
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
— Edmund Burke
I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.
— Samuel Johnson
With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.
— Aristotle
True art is made noble and religious by the mind producing it.
— Michelangelo
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.
— Aristotle
Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards.
— Samuel Beckett
Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be… And thou, O Lord, art more than they.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Christian theology can fit in science, art, morality, and the sub-Christian religious. The scientific point of view cannot fit any of these things, not even science itself.
— CS Lewis
What is your religion? I mean-not what you know about religion but the belief that helps you most?
— George Eliot
A mathematical point is the most indivisble and unique thing which art can present.
— John Donne
The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
— Pablo Picasso
The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude especially an attitude of gratitude in a given set of circumstances especially in difficult circumstances.
— Viktor E. Frankl