Quotes about Philosophy

The poorest Englishman who understands his Bible knows more about religion than the wisest philosophers of Greece and Rome.

The spiritual experience of the philosopher is the nourishing soil of philosophy; that without it there is no philosophy; and that, even so, spiritual experience does not, or must not, enter into the intelligible texture of philosophy. The pulp of the fruit must consist of nothing but the truth.

History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.

Jesus brooded upon the Divine imminence until at last he could declare, "I and my Father are One

A man is literally what he thinks

A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.

If you were born to be a nail, you cannot curse the hammer.

After all, how a woman thinks is often how she lives.

I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.

The intellectual support for UNBELIEF is about as stable as the stock market.

Christianity is not a set of convictions—it is a truth. The most offensive thing imaginable.

The problem of self-identity is not just a problem for the young. It is a problem all the time. Perhaps the problem. It should haunt old age, and when it no longer does it should tell you that you are dead.