Quotes about Philosophy

There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.

You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool. My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being, the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to. For my system, which you disapprove of, is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness --- it means more to me than my life itself.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

How can a reason which hates God be called sound?

Satan has frightened men from reading the sacred writings, and has rendered Holy Scriptures contemptible, so as to ensure his poisonous philosophy to prevail in the church.

Thus the Turks also regard us as damned because of the disasters and troubles we endure. But they promise themselves eternal happiness because they flourish in this life with wealth and power. This is the Egyptian philosophy and the Turkish religion. The Christian doctrine refutes it, as is taught elsewhere.

Faith is Individual.

The doers are much more enlightened in faith than the speculative, as even the philosopher says in his Metaphysics,75 that an experienced person acts more surely.

If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident.

Give to it the place in our institutions of learning now occupied by scholastic theology and physiology, and it will 142 eradicate sickness and sin in less time than the old systems, devised for subduing them, have required for self-establishment and propagation.

I think, therefore I'm single.