“Philosophy, like science, is only a collection of hypotheses, introduced for the usefulness of the ensemble, or for economy of thought.” — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“It is the forgetfulness of these principles which as made for the anarchy in thinking in so much of the anemic philosophy… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“To deny the necessity or value of metaphysics is to assert a metaphysical principle, just as to say a religion must be… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“I study philosophy after my dinner, but the dinner is not the cause o my studying philosophy.” — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Abstraction is the condition of the science of metaphysics, but in no way is its content.” — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the solicitation to pamper the way men live is too strong for them, for much of the business of philosophy at… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“These are but a few specimens of philosophy which is no longer conscious of its own intrinsic worth, and which sees no… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“The physical method becomes a philosophy when it asserts there is no higher knowledge than the empirical knowledge of scientific phenomena. The… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“When experimental psychology limits itself to rats and kittens, squabs and eyelids, philosophy of nature has little opportunity for formation. But when… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Never forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: the one of the cross, which starts with the fast… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“A word of caution, then, is necessary when a statement is made by a scientist turned philosopher, just as a word of… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Some change their philosophy of life with every book they read: one book sells them on Freud, the next on Marx; materialists… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“The sciences need philosophy; philosophy, in turn, needs the sciences. On both sides, certain naive minds, too confident in their own forces… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Even in the realm of pure mathematics, the mathematician may use any set of symbols he desires within any given region of… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Buddha wrote a code which he said would be useful to guide men in darkness, but he never claimed to be the… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
There is a tendency among many shallow thinkers of our day to teach that every human act is a reflex, over which… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Very harmful effects can follow accepting the philosophy which denies personal guilt or sin and thereby makes everyone nice. By denying sin,… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Holiness must have a philosophical and theological foundation, namely, Divine truth; otherwise it is sentimentality and emotionalism. Many would say later on,… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
There are 200 million poor in the world who would gladly take the vow of poverty if they could eat, dress and have a… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share
Love is the key to the mystery. Love by its very nature is not selfish, but generous. It seeks not its own, but the… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share
“This is what Aristotle meant when he said that the object of science is the necessary and the universal; man and not this man.” — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share
Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share
Calamity, war, famine, plague, death, adversity, disease, injury do not necessarily produce repentance. We may become better in a calamity but it does not… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share
No one has ever laughed at a pun who did not see in the one word a twofold meaning. To materialists this world is… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share
The Soviet Union is like the Cross without Christ, while American culture is like Christ without the Cross. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share
“The 'fullness of reality' in the second sense of the term is perceived by a combination of both intellect and sense, the senses knowing… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share
“The mathematical method is disinterested in the efficient cause and the final cause or the goodness of a thing and it should not be… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share
“The Church makes no man less free than he was before. But we chiefly value freedom in order to give it away; every man… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share
“To those who rejected Him, righteousness would one day appear as a terrible justice; to the sinful men who accepted Him and allied themselves… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share
It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share
One function of the angels is illumination, and the other function is that of being a guardian. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share
