Famous Quotes & Sayings

L. Ron Hubbard

My own philosophy is that one should share what wisdom he has, one should help others to help themselves and one should keep going despite heavy weather, for there is always a calm ahead.

Thomas Aquinas

Without the suitable conditions life could not exist. But both life and its conditions set forth the operations of inscrutable Power. We know not its origin; we know not its end. And the presumption, if not the degradation, rests with those who place upon the throne of the universe a magnified image of themselves, and make its doings a mere colossal imitation of their own. Wonder was the motive that led people to philosophy ... wonder is a kind of desire in knowledge. It is the cause of delight because it carries with it the hope of discovery.

Thomas Aquinas

Wonder was the motive that led people to philosophy ... wonder is a kind of desire in knowledge. It is the cause of delight because it carries with it the hope of discovery.

Thomas Aquinas

Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.

Thomas Aquinas

All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.

Thomas Aquinas

All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit.

Thomas Aquinas

Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.

Thomas Aquinas

The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.

Thomas Aquinas

Of all the pursuits open to men, the search for wisdom is most perfect, more sublime, more profitable, and more full of joy.

Thomas Aquinas

Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.

Thomas Aquinas

Beware of the person of one book.

Thomas Aquinas

To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.

Thomas Aquinas

How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.

Tertullian

Indeed heresies are themselves instigated by philosophy

Terry Pratchett

It was Sci-Fi and fantasy that got me reading, and Sci-Fi writers in particular have pack rat minds. They introduce all sorts of interesting themes and ideas into their books, and so for me it was a short leap to go from the fantasy and Sci-Fi genres to folklore, mythology, ancient history and philosophy. I did not read philosophy because I set out to become a philosopher; I read it because it looked interesting.

Terry Pratchett

No one's policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

Terry Pratchett

I could be wrong. Not being certain is what being a philosopher is all about.

Terry Pratchett

Oh, a very useful philosophical animal, your average tortoise. Outrunning metaphorical arrows, beating hares in races... very handy.

Terry Pratchett

The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy but they were listening in gibberish.

Terry Pratchett

I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.

Terry Pratchett

Are you a philosopher? Where's your sponge?

Terry Eagleton

If history, philosophy and so on vanish from academic life, what they leave in their wake may be a technical training facility or corporate research institute. But it will not be a university in the classical sense of the term, and it would be deceptive to call it one.

Terry Goodkind

We all can be only who we are, no more, no less.

Terry Goodkind

I've always said fantasy is sort of 'stealth philosophy'.

Terence McKenna

Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse.

Ted Chiang

Science fiction is very well suited to asking philosophical questions; questions about the nature of reality, what it means to be human, how do we know the things that we think we know.

Randall Jarrell

When you're young you try to be methodical and philosophical, but reality keeps breaking in.

Randall Jarrell

Poetry is a bad medium for philosophy. Everything in the philosophical poem has to satisfy irreconcilable requirements: for instance, the last demand that we should make of philosophy (that it be interesting) is the first we make of a poem; the philosophical poet has an elevated and methodical, but forlorn and absurd air as he works away at his flying tank, his sewing-machine that also plays the piano.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Things bring their own philosophy with them, that is, prudence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The new statement will comprise the skepticisms, as well as the faiths of society, and out of unbeliefs a creed shall be formed. For, skepticisms are not gratuitous or lawless, but are limitations of the affirmative statement, and the new philosophy must take them in, and make affirmations outside of them, just as much as must include the oldest beliefs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearances of reconciliation between the theory and the practice of life.