Quotes about Philosophy
One man asked another on the death of a mutual friend, "How much did he leave?" His friend responded, "He left it all.
— Stephen Covey
Discipline derives from disciple—disciple to a philosophy, disciple to a set of principles, disciple to a set of values, disciple to an overriding purpose, to a superordinate goal or a person who represents that goal.
— Stephen Covey
I think it should contain two basic parts: vision and principles. Vision deals with the mental picture of what you are about. And principles deal with how you go about it.
— Stephen Covey
I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.
— Albert Einstein
Now I beg of you to tell me whether I must love a human being simply because he exists or resembles me and whether for those reasons alone I must suddenly prefer him to myself?
— Marquis de Sade
This is all that I've known for certain, that God is love. Even if I have been mistaken on this or that point: God is nevertheless love.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
What a difference! Under the esthetic sky, everything is buoyant, beautiful, transient! when ethics arrives on the scene, everything becomes harsh, angular and infinitely boring
— Soren Kierkegaard
Love life more than the meaning of it?
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Life can be meaningful enough to justify its suffering
— Jordan Peterson
To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.
— Joseph Addison
Gabriel Marcel wrote that life is not so much a problem to be solved as a mystery to be explored.
— Eugene Peterson