Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal.

Philosophy likes to keen common sense on the run.

I am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers.

God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers- at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think!

Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy.

What's a philosopher?' said Brutha. Someone who's bright enough to find a job with no heavy lifting,' said a voice in his head.

God's existence is either true or not. But calling it a scientific question implies that the tools of science can provide the answer.

The philosopher says that God's knowledge is the measure of things, and that things are the measure of man's knowledge.

Even David Hume, one of history most famous skeptics, said it's just barely possible that God exists.

Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind, and therefore independence of all social, political or religious prejudice... It loves one thing only... truth.

The God to whom depth in philosophy bring back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them

Philosophy is the rational expression of genius.

Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.

The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know.

The division between faith and reason is a half-measure, till it is frankly admitted that faith has to do with fiction, and reason with fact.

The real truth, I thought, in terms of what faith is and what Christianity is.

A philosopher who says, 'There are no truths, only interpretations,' risks the retort: 'Is that true, or only an interpretation?'

Rationalism... is a secularized form of the belief in the power of the word of God.

Religious faith obscures uncertainty where uncertainty . . . exists, allowing the unknown, the implausible, and the . . . false to achieve primacy over the facts.

Philosophy is the thoughts of men about human thinking, reasoning and imagining, and the real values in human existence.

Different ‘philosophies’ represent nothing but methods of evaluation, which may lead to empirical mis-evaluation if science and empirical facts are disregarded.

Philosophers are only men in armor after all.

Philosophy, the love of Wisdom, is at the very bottom defence against the incomprehensible.

There is no scientific proof that only scientific proofs are good proofs; no way to prove by the scientific method that the scientific method is the only valid method.