Quotes about Philosophy

Philosophy arose out of religion,

It is supernaturalism, which in point of fact forms the point of controversy between Christianity and many panegyrists of modern culture.

GOD, the world and man are the three realities with which all science and all philosophy occupy themselves. The conception which we form of them and the relation in which we place them to one another determine the character of our view of the world and of life, the content of our religion, science, and morality.

One arrives at metaphysics, at a philosophy of religion, only if from another source one has gained the certainty that religion is not just an interesting phenomenon—comparable to belief in witches and ghosts—but truth, the truth that God exists, reveals himself, and is knowable.

Without God all things go wrong, both in our living and in our thinking. The denial of the existence of God means the elevation of the creature into the place of God.

Atheism is not proper to man by nature, but develops at a later stage of life, on the ground of philosophical reflection; like scepticism, it is an intellectual and ethical abnormality, which only confirms the rule. By nature every man believes in God.

Metaphysics, the belief in the absolute as a holy power, always forms the foundation of ethics.

In nearly every religion I am aware of, there is a variation of the golden rule. And even for the non-religious, it is a tenet of people who believe in humanistic principles.

It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us.

I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe.

Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.

Oh, beauty, ever ancient and ever new.