Quotes about Philosophy
Faith and philosophy are air, but events are brass.
— Herman Melville
It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively.
— Peter Kreeft
St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to attain the Divine. That is why all pre-Christian philosophy is theological at its summit.
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
Let no young man delay the study of philosophy, and let no old man become weary of it; for it is never too early nor too late to care for the well-being of the soul.
— Epicurus
Repression is the only lasting philosophy. The dark deference of fear and slavery, my friend, will keep the dogs obedient to the whip, as long as this roof shuts out the sky.
— Charles Dickens
Hope founded upon a human being, a man-made philosophy or any institution is always misplaced... because these things are unreliable and fleeting.
— Charles Stanley
Optimism is a philosophy based on the belief that basically life is good, that, in the long run, the good in life overbalances the evil.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes and compel it to inquire about life and standards and goods and evils.
— Cicero
I refuse to believe that we're only here to live and die.
— Amy Grant
Probabilities direct the conduct of the wise man.
— Cicero
American life is builded ... upon that fundamental philosophy announced by the Savior nineteen centuries ago ... [It] can not survive with the defense of Cain, "Am I my brother's keeper?
— Herbert Hoover
Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel