Quotes about Philosophy
The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
— John F. Kennedy
Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another; good sense is not conscience, refinement is not humility, nor is largeness and justness of view faith. Philosophy, however enlightened, however profound, gives no command over the passions, no influential motives, no vivifying principles. Liberal Education makes not the Christian, not the Catholic, but the gentleman
— John Henry Newman
Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine — Unweave a rainbow
— John Keats
Consider first, that great or bright infers not excellence.
— John Milton
Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that can become fruitful
— Albert Camus
The most intractable of our experiences is the experience of Time-the intuition of duration, combined with the thought of perpetual perishing.
— Aldous Huxley
All theory is against freedom of the will all experience for it.
— Samuel Johnson
Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
— St. Augustine
Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from the faith.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Faith is not the opposite of reason. Faith rests squarely upon reason, but with the added component of revelation.
— Francis Collins
Absolute atheism starts in an act of faith in reverse gear and is a full-blown religious commitment.
— Jacques Maritain
To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred.
— Albert Camus