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There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fontenelle says he would undertake to persuade the whole public of readers to believe that the sun was neither the cause of light or heat, if he could only get six philosophers on his side.
- Goldsmith, Oliver
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Best Quotes about Philosophers and philosophy

1.
To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.
James, William

2.
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

3.
One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
Burroughs, John

4.
Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.
Brookner, Anita

5.
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

6.
If he really thinks there is no distinction between vice and virtue, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.
Johnson, Samuel

7.
Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it!
Roux, Joseph

8.
To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.
Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

9.
Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labor of its unfamiliar thought.
Yeats, William Butler

10.
It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig

11.
Plato was a bore.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

12.
Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

13.
I have tried too in my time to be a philosopher; but, I don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in.
Edwards, Oliver

14.
What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing about the origin and destiny of cats?
Thoreau, Henry David

15.
There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.
Descartes, Rene

16.
The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatures are the willing playthings; he is less duped than his neighbor by his own nature. He judges more sanely, he sees things as they are. It is in this that his liberty consists -- in the ability to see clearly and soberly, in the power of mental record.
Amiel, Henri Frederic

17.
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

18.
Philosophy always requires something more, requires the eternal, the true, in contrast to which even the fullest existence as such is but a happy moment.
Kierkegaard, SĀ°ren

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.
Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say thus it shall be!, it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of mankind, and they possess for this task the preliminary work of all the philosophical laborers, of all those who have subdued the past -- they reach for the future with creative hand, and everything that is or has been becomes for them a means, an instrument, a hammer. Their knowing is creating, their creating is a law giving, their will to truth is -- will to power. Are their such philosophers today? Have there been such philosophers? Must there not be such philosophers?
Nietzsche, Friedrich

21.
How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do.
Schopenhauer, Arthur

22.
While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work [Plato's Republic], I laid it down often to ask myself how it could have been that the world should have so long consented to give reputation to such nonsense as this?
Jefferson, Thomas

23.
Look, I really don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive, you got to flap your arms and legs, you got to jump around a lot, you got to make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death. And therefore, as I see it, if you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy, or at least your thoughts should be noisy and colorful and lively.
Brooks, Mel

24.
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

25.
To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
Pascal, Blaise

26.
And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it.
Donne, John

27.
Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig

28.
Philosophy may be dodged, eloquence cannot.
Quinet, Edgar

29.
If you set your heart upon philosophy, you must straightway prepare yourself to be laughed at and mocked by many who will say Behold a philosopher arisen among us! or How came you by that brow of scorn? But do you cherish no scorn, but hold to those things which seem to you the best, as one set by God in that place. Remember too, that if you abide in those ways, those who first mocked you, the same shall afterwards reverence you; but if you yield to them, you will be laughed at twice as much as before.
Epictetus

30.
Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them.
Plato

31.
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

32.
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

33.
What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind.
Berkeley, George

34.
Philosophy is the product of wonder.
Whitehead, Alfred North

35.
The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
Stevens, Wallace

36.
Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.
Whitehead, Alfred North

37.
The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.
Reade, W. Winwood

38.
There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.
Maistre, Joseph De

39.
There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.
Cicero, Marcus T.

40.
Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?
Diogenes of Sinope

41.
Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.
Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

42.
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

43.
The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the insoluble problems in all their insolubility and then in simply contemplating them, fixedly and tirelessly, year after year, without any hope, patiently waiting.
Weil, Simone

44.
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

45.
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

46.
The pursuit of what is true and the practice of what is good are the two most important objects of philosophy.
Voltaire

47.
Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.
Miller, Henry

48.
Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
Camus, Albert

49.
If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers.
Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

50.
Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737.
Smith, Sydney


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