Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.

Well, I don't like to get involved in these philosophical issues very much.

Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Ideas matter because they can actually alter people’s conception of their own self-interest..

The words that we use I think are symbolic of the values that we hold.

...a man does not die for words. He dies for his relation to them.

Man lives in a world of meaning.

Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.

All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.

I don't see myself as a philosopher. That's awfully boring.

Men are never so good or so bad as their opinions.

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.

Cognition is not fighting, but once someone knows a lot, he will have much to fight for, so much that he will be called a relativist because of it.

Words are all we have.

There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.

I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.

The only thing you have to know are your words.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.

I like the big questions.

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.

Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.