Philosopher Quotes

Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.
Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.
Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.
No man's credit is as good as his money.
One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.
Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.
Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.
The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.
The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
To me faith means not worrying.
We only think when we are confronted with problems.
Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.
Is it honest for me to go and sit there on communion day and drink the wine and eat the bread while feeling it all to be mummery?
One and all, the orthodox creeds are crumbling into ruins everywhere.
Realism is not a matter of any fidelity to an empirical reality, but of the discursive conventions by which and for which a sense of reality is constructed.
The persecuting spirit has its origin... in the assumption that one's own opinions are infallibly correct.
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