Philosophy Quote by Paul Kurtz

“This is the tragedy of almost every civilization—that its soul is in its faith, and seldom survives philosophy.”

— Will Durant

“It is a mere consolation to the timid to imagine that philosophy has died. The fact of the matter is quite to the contrary.…

— Nick Land

“Most people experience both tragedy and joy in varying proportions. Any philosophy which leaves out either cannot be considered to be comprehensive.”

— Abraham Harold Maslow

“A tragedy is still a tragedy; pain is still pain, even if some insight is gained in the process. We”

— Kelly M Kapic

“The dangers of sophistry and scholasticism are present in the possibility of philosophy itself.”

— Susan Neiman

“Philosophy is the critically reflective, systematically articulated attempt to illumine our human experience in depth and set it in a vision of the whole.”

— W. Norris Clarke

“Philosophy is the disease of which it should be the cure !”

— Herbert Feigl

“Nature, it her most dazzling aspects or stupendous parts, is but the background and theatre of the tragedy of man”

— John Morley

“Disgusted by the abuses to which it led, humanity repressed Christianity by which it had so long been dominated. Repressed, but not eliminated. Herein…

— Paul Tournier

“Mankind’s biggest tragedy is apathy. The settlement with inequality, wars, and madness is the mirror of it.”

— Stephan Attia

“The writer has to die to give birth to the intellectual in the service of the wretched of the earth.”

— Annie Cohen-Solal

“In the last stage of civilization, Poetry, Religion, and Philosophy will be one.”

— Thoreau