Quotes about Philosophy
To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man.
— GK Chesterton
When men cease to believe in God, they will believe in anything.
— GK Chesterton
Truth is superior to man s wisdom.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Thou seest how few be the things, the which if a man has at his command his life flows gently on and is divine.
— Marcus Aurelius
A man is a little soul carrying around a courpse.
— Marcus Aurelius
What is the real breath of a man — the breathing out or the breathing in?
— Margaret Atwood
This atheism concerning the gods of men pertains hereafter to any possible faith
— Paul Ricoeur
Fishing has been styled 'a contemplative man's recreation,' ... and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.
— Henry David Thoreau
We have reason to be grateful for celestial phenomena, for they chiefly answer to the ideal in man.
— Henry David Thoreau
I was daily intoxicated, yet no man could call me intemperate.
— Henry David Thoreau
What is chastity? How shall a man know if he is chaste? He shall not know it. We have heard of this virtue, but we know not what it is.
— Henry David Thoreau
There are doubts, sir, which, if man have them, it is not man that can solve them.
— Herman Melville