Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child..
It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain..
Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived..
The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so..
Creeds and causal systems have argued with each other for millennia, and even so we and our ancestors have managed to live in a world of differing op….
In the next few galactic seconds, the fate of the universe will be decided. Life - the ultimate experiment - will either explode into space, and engu….
The plain fact is that there are no conclusions. If we must state a conclusion, it would be that many of the former conclusions of the nineteenth-cen….
The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value..
Al-Ghazali is the most important philosophical theologian of classical Islam, and Moderation in Belief is among his most important works. It sets out….
No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye..
Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices..
I am not certain of the hereafter. Frankly, I'm not all that certain of the here..
I still lack a political, religious and philosophical world view - I change it every month - and so I'll have to limit myself to descriptions of how ….
Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do..
I don't like purely philosophical works. I think a little philosophy should be added to life and art by way of seasoning, but to make it one's specia….
You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or….
There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over..
The war in vietnam threatened to tear our society apart, and the political and philosophical disagreements that separated each side continue, to some….
I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily want….
Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week..
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude..