Quotes about Philosophy

Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.

No one can take from us the ability to choose our attitudes toward the circumstances in which we find ourselves. This is the last of human freedoms.

God exists necessarily and is the explanation why anything else exists.

I am not offering God as a theory to compete with scientific theories about the universe. Rather I am saying that those self-contained, secular theories provide evidence for theologically neutral premises in philosophical arguments leading to a conclusion that has theistic significance.

pain may be inevitable but suffering is optional.

There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it

We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.

The greatest thinkers of Greece — Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle, and later Plutarch and Plotinus — derived their ideas from ancient tradition, and further on from divine revelation.

To separate between religion and metaphysics, however often it may have been attempted, is impossible.

All worldviews, therefore, end in an eschatology and all efforts at reformation are animated by faith in the future.

Ethical culture must be a philosophy of revelation or it cannot exist.

Reason was cast down from this exalted pedestal by the philosophy of Kant, by the theology of Schleiermacher and with the rise of the Romantic school.