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Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
- Seneca
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Best Quotes about Philosophers and philosophy

1.
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

2.
The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study.
Hegel, Georg

3.
Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.
Brookner, Anita

4.
To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
Pascal, Blaise

5.
Keep quiet and people will think you a philosopher.

6.
If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.
Lichtenberg, Georg C.

7.
The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.
Chesterton, Gilbert K.

8.
The philosopher must station themselves in the middle.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

11.
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

12.
It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig

13.
Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig

14.
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

15.
The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.
Marx, Karl

16.
Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?
Pinter, Harold

17.
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

18.
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

19.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full and scratch where it itches.
Longworth, Alice Roosevelt

20.
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

21.
Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labor of its unfamiliar thought.
Yeats, William Butler

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

24.
Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

25.
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

26.
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

27.
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

28.
Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it!
Roux, Joseph

29.
Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.
Miller, Henry

30.
Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
Camus, Albert

31.
Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.
Rohn, Jim

32.
To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.
Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

33.
There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.
Maistre, Joseph De

34.
In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.
Murdoch, Iris

35.
As an example of just how useless these philosophers are for any practice in life there is Socrates himself, the one and only wise man, according to the Delphic Oracle. Whenever he tried to do anything in public he had to break off amid general laughter. While he was philosophizing about clouds and ideas, measuring a flea's foot and marveling at a midge's humming, he learned nothing about the affairs of ordinary life.
Erasmus, Desiderius

36.
There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.
Descartes, Rene

37.
The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to debase him by showing his miseries.
Pascal, Blaise

38.
In it he proves that all things are true and states how the truths of all contradictions may be reconciled physically, such as for example that white is black and black is white; that one can be and not be at the same time; that there can be hills without valleys; that nothingness is something and that everything, which is, is not. But take note that he proves all these unheard-of paradoxes without any fallacious or sophistical reasoning.
Bergerac, Savinien Cyrano De

39.
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

40.
What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind.
Berkeley, George

41.
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

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.
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

44.
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

45.
Philosophy is the product of wonder.
Whitehead, Alfred North

46.
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

47.
Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
Rousseau, Jean Jacques

48.
Many talk like philosophers yet live like fools.
Proverb

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

50.
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


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