Quotes about Philosophy
A good man regards the root; he fixes the root, and ail else flows out of it. The root is filial piety; the fruit brotherly love.
— Confucius
Christianity is the greatest intellectual system the mind of man has ever touched.
— Francis Schaeffer
I've long stopped worrying about who invented whom - God man or man God.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.
— Epicurus
My political opinions lean more and more to Anarchy (philosophically understood, meaning abolition of control not whiskered men with bombs).
— JRR Tolkien
When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
— GK Chesterton
The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.
— Deepak Chopra
An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
— Victor Hugo
I think, therefore I doubt.
— Victor Hugo
The infinite exists. It is there. If the infinite had no me, the me would be its limit; it would not be the infinite; in other words, it would not be. But it is. Then it has a me. This me of the infinite is God.
— Victor Hugo
The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal.
— Victor Hugo
Though one believes in nothing, there are moments in life when one accepts the religion of the temple nearest at hand.
— Victor Hugo