Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.
Stoic Quotes: Timeless Wisdom for a Fulfilling Life - page 28
All life is a movement in relationship. There is no living thing on earth which is not related to something or other.
When Satan's not in the mood, virtue triumphs. Hasn't even Satan a right not to be in the mood once in a while?
Gunter Grass
The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.
Edward R. Murrow
Persecuting bigots may be compared to those burning lenses which Lenhenboeck and others composed from ice; by their chilling apathy they freeze the suppliant; by their fiery zeal they burn the sufferer.
Satan often paints sin with virtue's colors.
Thomas Brooks
Only lifeless mechanisms move along faultlessly straight lines and compass circles. In art the surest way to destroy is to canonize one given form and one philosophy: that which is canonized quickly dies of obesity, of entropy.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
There is such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action.
Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues.
To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.
Science never makes an advance until philosophy authorizes it to do so.
Thomas E. Mann
must acknowledge, that to act properly is much more valuable than to think justly or reason acutely.
Thomas Reid
Being our Self is the wisest philosophy, the bravest action, the kindest consideration and the greatest act of healing imaginable.
Robert Holden
Ultimately there can be no disagreement between history, science, philosophy, and theology. Where there is disagreement, there is either ignorance or error.
Mortimer Adler
An art, which has an aim to achieve the beauty, is called a philosophy or in the absolute sense it is named wisdom.
Al-Farabi
In truth, the laboratory is the forecourt of the temple of philosophy, and whoso has not offered sacrifices and undergone purification there has little chance of admission into the sanctuary.
I strongly believe that people may not want, or may not be able, to start again from scratch, so giving old furniture a new lease of life is at the heart of my philosophy.
Nina Campbell
