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Many talk like philosophers yet live like fools.
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Best Quotes about Philosophers and philosophy

1.
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

2.
Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!
Murdoch, Iris

3.
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

4.
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

5.
It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig

6.
Philosophers are only men in armor after all.
Dickens, Charles

7.
What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind.
Berkeley, George

8.
Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Zend, Robert

9.
Philosophy is the product of wonder.
Whitehead, Alfred North

10.
Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.
Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

11.
The pursuit of what is true and the practice of what is good are the two most important objects of philosophy.
Voltaire

12.
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

13.
Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.
There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.
Descartes, Rene

15.
The philosopher must station themselves in the middle.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.
Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?
Diogenes of Sinope

17.
The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
Stevens, Wallace

18.
Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.
Rohn, Jim

19.
Philosophy is a bully that talks loud when the danger is at a distant; but, the moment she is pressed hard by an enemy, she is nowhere to be found and leaves the brunt of the battle to be fought by her steady, humble comrade, religion.
Colton, Charles Caleb

20.
Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life.
Carnegie, Dale

21.
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

22.
Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig

23.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full and scratch where it itches.
Longworth, Alice Roosevelt

24.
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

25.
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

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.
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

28.
There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.
Cicero, Marcus T.

29.
If he really thinks there is no distinction between vice and virtue, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.
Johnson, Samuel

30.
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

31.
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

32.
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

33.
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

34.
Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
Camus, Albert

35.
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

36.
The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study.
Hegel, Georg

37.
We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innocence, to find our way out of the rubble of things alien to us, to begin to feel for ourselves and to speak ourselves, and I might almost say to exist ourselves.
Lichtenberg, Georg C.

38.
A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig

39.
Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labor of its unfamiliar thought.
Yeats, William Butler

40.
Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.
Stevens, Wallace

41.
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

42.
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

43.
Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.
Brookner, Anita

44.
In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.
Murdoch, Iris

45.
Philosophy is doubt.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

46.
Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?
Pinter, Harold

47.
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

48.
Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.
Miller, Henry

49.
When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.
Lippmann, Walter

50.
To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
Pascal, Blaise


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