#philosophy

All I know is that I do no know anything ↗

— Socrates

#life

I see humans but no humanity. ↗

— Jason Donohue

#life

For Christians . . . an unreflective faith is not possible if we take seriously the injunction to love God with the mind as well as the heart and soul. ↗

— Delwin Brown

#theology #faith

A thing is only as great as the amount a person is willing to risk for it. If you are not willing to risk anything, then the thing mustn't be so great at all. ↗

— Madeline Claire Franklin

#philosophy #risks #life

Mendel had a remarkable nature as a boy. I’m not talking about miracles. Miracles are a burden for a tzaddik, not the proof of one. Miracles prove nothing except to those whose faith is bought very cheap, sir. There was something in Mendele. There was a fire. ↗

— Michael Chabon

#philosophy #faith

History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy. ↗

— Augustine Birrell

#history #pageant #philosophy

My philosophy is to be me. ↗

— Yohan Blake

#philosophy

In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language governed it. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

#already #begun #certain #dream #dreamed

Imprisoning philosophy within the professionalizations and specializations of an institutionalized curriculum, after the manner of our contemporary European and North American culture, is arguably a good deal more effective in neutralizing its effects than either religious censorship or political terror ↗

— Alasdair C. MacIntyre

#censorship

Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#politics #society #political-philosophy