Inspirational Quotes on Philosophy

“To say that the holocaust was objectively wrong, is to say that the holocaust was wrong even though the Nazis who carried it out thought that it was right, and it would still have been wrong, even if the Nazis had won World War II and succeeded in brainwashing or exterminating everybody who disagreed with them, so that everyone in the world thought that the holocaust was right and good. To say that the holocaust was objectively wrong, means that it's wrong regardless of the outcome of World War II. The premise is that if there is no God, then moral values or duties are not objective in that sense.”

“Men have presented their plans and philosophies for the remedying of earth's ills, but Jesus stands alone in presenting not a system, but His own personality as capable of supplying the needs of the soul.”

“Love, and do what you like.”

“What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.”

“By-and-by never comes.”

“Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt. ”

“Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.”

“The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences. ”

“Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart. ”

“Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.”

“If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!”

“It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.”

“Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.”

“The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.”

“The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.”

“To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.”

“When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.”

“Let it not be said that I have said nothing new. The arrangement of the material is new.”

“When you invite a middle-aged moralist to address you, I suppose I must conclude that you have a taste for middle-aged moralizing.”

“Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes.”