Philosophy Quote by Lucretius

“As you say of yourself, I too am an Epicurean . I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything…

— Thomas Jefferson

I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and…

— Thomas Jefferson

When we contemplate the world of Epicurus, and conceive the universe to be a fortuitous jumble of atoms, there is nothing grand in this…

— Thomas Reid

“a man is not really convinced of a philosophic theory when he finds that something proves it. He is only really convinced when he…

— G.K. Chesterton

When someone admits one and rejects another which is equally in accordance with the appearances, it is clear that he has quitted all physical…

— Epicurus

“to admit we do not understand a phenomenon is not to admit the presence of the miraculous but merely, reasonably, to accept the limitations…

— Salman Rushdie

“Even though the natural light of the human mind is inadequate to make known what is revealed by faith, nevertheless what is divinely taught…

— Thomas Aquinas

But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what…

— Talcott Parsons

“A man is partially convinced because he has found this or that proof of the thing, and he can expound it. But a man…

— G.K. Chesterton

“There is a rational explanation for everything, regardless of whether that explanation is known.”

— Koda

“One is not likely to learn much about human beings, by way of psychoanalysis or otherwise, if one adheres unwaveringly to a theory, no…

— Miltiades Zaphiropoulous

“If you are to suppose that natural reasons are the cause of everything, then it can only lead to the conclusion that consciousness is…

— Lewis N. Roe