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Philosophy.

Deep questions about existence, knowledge, and virtue.

“You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.”

“Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.”

Jean Paul Richter

“Dreams shed light on the dim places where reason itself has yet to voyage.”

Jordan Peterson

“Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.”

“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”

“We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.”

“One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.”

“People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.”

“Make your life a dream, and a dream a reality.”

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“Blessed are those who need no reasons other than their love for the Savior to keep his commandments.”

“The purpose of all wars, is peace.”

Saint Augustine

“Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning...”

“People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of science or books of metaphysics. The reason is very simple; it is merely that the novel is more true than they are.”

G.K. Chesterton

“Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.”

“The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.”

“That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.”

Albert Einstein

“What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.”

William Shakespeare

“Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.”

“There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers.”

“I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.”

“I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.”

Thomas Jefferson

“The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality - it connects you to reality.”

“A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.”

“Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.”

Albert Einstein

“Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.”

Benjamin Franklin

“No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.”

Arthur Conan Doyle

“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”

Galileo Galilei

“Humor is reason gone mad.”

“You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.”

G.K. Chesterton

“When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.”

“An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.”

Publilius Syrus

“Every man is pent up within the limits of his own consciousness, and cannot directly get beyond those limits any more than he can get beyond his own skin; so external aid is not of much use to him.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

“The reason why respect is paid to age is that old people have necessarily shown in the course of their lives whether or not they have been able to maintain their honor unblemished; while that of young people has not been put to the proof, though they are credited with the possession of it.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

“Most people don't like change. They revolt against it unless they can clearly see the advantage it brings. For that reason, when good leaders prepare to take action or make changes, they take people through a process to get them ready for it.”

John C. Maxwell

“To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.”

“I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.”

“There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.”

“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.”

“One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

“What we learn from experience depends on the kind of philosophy we bring to experience.”

“Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.”

“It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.”

“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”

Albert Einstein

“Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.”

“Time makes more converts than reason.”

“The purpose of our lives is to be happy.”

“Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.”

“Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.”

“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.”

Albert Einstein