Philosophical Quotes - Page 27

Nature does nothing in vain.

Well begun is half done.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

The most beautiful, perhaps the only true philosophical song existing in any known tongue ....perhaps the deepest and loftiest thing the world has to show.

Go forth a conqueror and win great victories.

Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.

If we look at it more from a philosophical standpoint, these foundations of atheism and secular humanism believe that you are your own God. That leads us to something that unfortunately has crept into many churches across America, and it is what I call the Social Gospel. The social gospel, that could creep into something that is called Liberation Theology, which is a mixture of leftist, pseudo-Christianity with Marxism.

Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone

Nowadays, to say that we are clever animals is not to say something philosophical and pessimistic but something political and hopeful - namely, if we can work together, we can make ourselves into whatever we are clever and courageous enough to imagine ourselves becoming. This is to set aside Kant's question "What is man?" and to substitute the question "What sort of world can we prepare for our great grandchildren?

We must honor our dragons, encourage them to be worthy destroyers, expect they'll strive to cut us down. It is their duty to ridicule us, it is their job to demean us, to force us if they can to stop being different! And when we walk our way no matter their fire and their fury, our dragons shrug when we're out of sight, return to their card-games philosophical: 'Ah well, we can't toast 'em all...'

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.

We have embarked globally on a path of unsustainable development. Our lifestyles, the way we produce goods and services, are all part of a system that is completely unsustainable. I see solutions to climate change leading to a much larger philosophical shift in the way human society develops. We need a new matrix to define what human progress is.

There will be no end to the troubles of states,Or of humanity itself,Till philosophers become kings in this world,Or till those we now call kings and rulers really And truly become philosophers

Courage is a kind of salvation.

No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.

The now wherein God made the world is as near this time as the now I am speaking in this moment, and the last day is as near this now as was yesterday.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

What Descartes did was a good step. You have added much several ways, and especially in taking the colours of thin plates into philosophical consideration. If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.

I see I have made my self a slave to Philosophy.