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There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.
- Maistre, Joseph De
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Best Quotes about Philosophers and philosophy

1.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full and scratch where it itches.
Longworth, Alice Roosevelt

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

4.
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

5.
The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
Stevens, Wallace

6.
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

7.
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

8.
A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig

9.
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

10.
If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.
Lichtenberg, Georg C.

11.
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

12.
The philosopher must station themselves in the middle.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.
Many talk like philosophers yet live like fools.
Proverb

15.
One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
Burroughs, John

16.
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

17.
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

18.
It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig

19.
Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?
Diogenes of Sinope

20.
Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.
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

22.
Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory -- the world? Then we pygmies must be content to have out paper allegories but ill comprehended.
Melville, Herman

23.
Bad philosophers may have a certain influence; good philosophers, never.
Russell, Bertrand

24.
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

25.
Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
Camus, Albert

26.
Keep quiet and people will think you a philosopher.

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

28.
Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life.
Carnegie, Dale

29.
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

30.
Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.
Rohn, Jim

31.
When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy.
Voltaire

32.
To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
Pascal, Blaise

33.
When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.
Lippmann, Walter

34.
All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?
Kant, Immanuel

35.
If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers.
Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

36.
The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.
Marx, Karl

37.
There is no record in history of a happy philosopher.
Mencken, H. L.

38.
Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

39.
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

40.
Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it!
Roux, Joseph

41.
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

42.
Philosophers are only men in armor after all.
Dickens, Charles

43.
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

44.
There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.
Cicero, Marcus T.

45.
What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing about the origin and destiny of cats?
Thoreau, Henry David

46.
To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.
James, William

47.
Philosophy is the product of wonder.
Whitehead, Alfred North

48.
There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.
Descartes, Rene

49.
Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?
Gauguin, Paul

50.
Philosophy is doubt.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De


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