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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
- Burroughs, John
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Best Quotes about Philosophers and philosophy

1.
When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.
Lippmann, Walter

2.
Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?
Gauguin, Paul

3.
A writer must always try to have a philosophy and he should also have a psychology and a philology and many other things. Without a philosophy and a psychology and all these various other things he is not really worthy of being called a writer. I agree with Kant and Schopenhauer and Plato and Spinoza and that is quite enough to be called a philosophy. But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.
Stein, Gertrude

4.
Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.
Aquinas, St. Thomas

5.
The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be n hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.
Shaw, George Bernard

6.
Plato was a bore.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

7.
The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand.
Canetti, Elias

8.
Philosophy may be dodged, eloquence cannot.
Quinet, Edgar

9.
Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.
Stevens, Wallace

10.
Philosophy is doubt.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

11.
If He Tom Sawyer had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
Twain, Mark

12.
There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.
Descartes, Rene

13.
Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it!
Roux, Joseph

14.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full and scratch where it itches.
Longworth, Alice Roosevelt

15.
Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.
Hegel, Georg

16.
Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig

17.
Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.
Whitehead, Alfred North

18.
The philosopher must station themselves in the middle.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.
The philosopher believes that the value of his philosophy lies in the whole, in the building: posterity discovers it in the bricks with which he built and which are then often used again for better building: in the fact, that is to say, that building can be destroyed and nonetheless possess value as material.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

20.
If he really thinks there is no distinction between vice and virtue, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.
Johnson, Samuel

21.
Reason, progress, unselfishness, a wide historical perspective, expansiveness, generosity, enlightened self-interest. I had heard it all my life, and it filled me with despair.
Tait, Katherine

22.
Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.
Miller, Henry

23.
The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. -- The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig

24.
Do not all charms fly at the mere touch of cold philosophy? There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: we know her woof, her texture; she is given in the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an angel's wings, conquer all mysteries by rule and line, empty the haunted air, and gnome mine unweave a rainbow.
Keats, John

25.
Then, like an old-time orator impressively he rose; I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.
Teasdale, Sara

26.
If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.
Lichtenberg, Georg C.

27.
The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
Stevens, Wallace

28.
I have tried too in my time to be a philosopher; but, I don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in.
Edwards, Oliver

29.
The usual picture of Socrates is of an ugly little plebeian who inspired a handsome young nobleman to write long dialogues on large topics.
Rorty, Richard

30.
Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labor of its unfamiliar thought.
Yeats, William Butler

31.
Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
Socrates

32.
How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, but musical as is Apollo's lute, and a perpetual feast of nectared sweets, where no crude surfeit reigns.
Milton, John

33.
In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.
Murdoch, Iris

34.
The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.
Chesterton, Gilbert K.

35.
Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

36.
Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.
Cicero, Marcus T.

37.
Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship. We should replace it by a more modest and more realistic principle -- the principle that the fight against avoidable misery should be a recognized aim of public policy, while the increase of happiness should be left, in the main, to private initiative.
Popper, Karl

38.
To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
Pascal, Blaise

39.
Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
Camus, Albert

40.
Many talk like philosophers yet live like fools.
Proverb

41.
There is today-in a time when old beliefs are withering-a kind of philosophical hunger, a need to know who we are and how we got here. It is an on-going search, often unconscious, for a cosmic perspective for humanity.
Sagan, Carl Edward

42.
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
Diderot, Denis

43.
What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind.
Berkeley, George

44.
Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.
Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

45.
Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!
Murdoch, Iris

46.
The ultimate triumph of philosophy would be to cast light upon the mysterious ways in which Providence moves to achieve the designs it has for man.
Sade, Marquis De

47.
Philosophers are only men in armor after all.
Dickens, Charles

48.
What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing about the origin and destiny of cats?
Thoreau, Henry David

49.
A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig

50.
I have always taken as the standard of the mode of teaching and writing, not the abstract, particular, professional philosopher, but universal man, that I have regarded man as the criterion of truth, and not this or that founder of a system, and have from the first placed the highest excellence of the philosopher in this, that he abstains, both as a man and as an author, from the ostentation of philosophy, i.e., that he is a philosopher only in reality, not formally, that he is a quiet philosopher, not a loud and still less a brawling one.
Feuerbach, Ludwig


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