Quotes about Philosophy

If somebody postulates the existence of more than one god, I would have to say we don't worship the same god. If somebody says that God is basically one with the world, I would also have to say we don't worship the same god.

Aquinas is worth reading. He has stood the test of time. And even where he errs, you can learn more from the errors of a great mind than you can learn from the truths of a small mind. You can see a whole lot farther standing on the shoulders of giants.

To greed, all nature is insufficient.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find.

There is a noble manner of being poor and who does not know it will never be rich.

To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.

What does reason demand of a man A very easy thing: to live in accord with his nature.

Heaven is neither a place nor a time.

At one time I was so much involved in the religious bullshit that I used to go around calling myself a Christian Communist, but as Janov says, religion is legalised madness.

There is more to be learnt from every page of David Hume than from the collected philosophical works of Hegel, Herbart, and Schleiermacher are taken together.

I don't reckon men are supposed to think, Sally said philosophically, as the pile of hemp rope grew at her feet. That's why God gave 'em big muscles.

I don't think a man can hurt another, not in any important way. Neither hurt him nor help him. I have really nothing to forgive you.