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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
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Best Quotes about Philosophers and philosophy

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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

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

3.
In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.
Leary, Timothy

4.
In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.
Murdoch, Iris

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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

6.
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

7.
Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?
Pinter, Harold

8.
The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.
Marx, Karl

9.
Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
Seneca

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

11.
What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing about the origin and destiny of cats?
Thoreau, Henry David

12.
To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.
Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

13.
The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study.
Hegel, Georg

14.
Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life.
Carnegie, Dale

15.
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

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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

17.
The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.
Chesterton, Gilbert K.

18.
If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers.
Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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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

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

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

23.
The pursuit of what is true and the practice of what is good are the two most important objects of philosophy.
Voltaire

24.
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

25.
Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?
Diogenes of Sinope

26.
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

27.
Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Zend, Robert

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

29.
Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labor of its unfamiliar thought.
Yeats, William Butler

30.
What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind.
Berkeley, George

31.
The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
Stevens, Wallace

32.
There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.
Cicero, Marcus T.

33.
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

34.
One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
Burroughs, John

35.
Philosophy is doubt.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

36.
Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.
Stevens, Wallace

37.
Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
Camus, Albert

38.
Keep quiet and people will think you a philosopher.

39.
Many talk like philosophers yet live like fools.
Proverb

40.
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

41.
When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.
Lippmann, Walter

42.
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

43.
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

44.
Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.
Rohn, Jim

45.
I have tried too in my time to be a philosopher; but, I don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in.
Edwards, Oliver

46.
If he really thinks there is no distinction between vice and virtue, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.
Johnson, Samuel

47.
There is no record in history of a happy philosopher.
Mencken, H. L.

48.
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

49.
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

50.
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


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