Quotes about Philosophy

How do I find God?' you ask. I do not know how, but I do know where-in my fellow man.

Man walks the moon but his soul remains riveted to earth. Once upon a time it was the opposite.

Everything had been said. The pros and the cons. I would choose the living or the dead. Day or night.

most of us turn to religion for our ethics because we don't know where else to find them.

Once people stop believing in the God of the Bible, they don't believe in nothing--they begin to believe in anything.

Thomas Aquinas and John Calvin concur on the claim that there is a kind of natural knowledge of God (and anything on which Calvin and Aquinas are in accord is something to which we had better pay careful attention).

The sensus divinitatis is a belief-producing faculty (or power, or mechanism) that under the right conditions produces belief that isn't evidentially based on other beliefs.

To show that there are natural processes that produce religious belief does nothing, so far, to discredit it; perhaps God designed us in such a way that it is by virtue of those processes that we come to have knowledge of him.

If my belief in other minds is rational, so is my belief in God.

God creates a world containing evil and has a good reason for doing so.

How could there be truths totally independent of minds or persons?... How could the things that are in fact true or false—propositions, let's say—exist in serene and majestic independence of persons and their means of apprehension? How could there be propositions no one has ever so much as grasped or thought of?

Accordingly, criteria for proper basicality must be reached from below rather than above; they should not be presented ex cathedra but argued to and tested by a relevant set of examples.