Quotes about Philosophy
I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin.
— GK Chesterton
Intelligent design is consistent with any faith system I can think of, because most faith systems believe that there is a creator.
— Lee Strobel
Faith is the master, and reason the maid-servant.
— Martin Luther
Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from faith. If the realist once believes, then he is bound by his very realism to admit the miraculous also.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Reason is our soul's left hand Faith her right. By this we reach divinity.
— John Donne
Seek not to understand that thou mayest believe but believe that thou mayest understand.
— St. Augustine
My faith runs so very much faster than my reason that I can challenge the whole world and say, 'God is, was and ever shall be'
— Mahatma Gandhi
We live Law to ourselves. Our reason is our Law.
— John Milton
Or if they list to try Conjecture, he his fabric of the Heavens Hath left to their disputes, perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide. John Milton, Paradise Lost viii 75-78
— John Milton
But past who can recall, or don undoe? Not God Omnipotent, nor Fate
— John Milton
Dostoyevsky, who was a believer, wrote that the "death of a single infant calls into question the existence of God."1
— John Ortberg