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Philosophers and philosophy

Philosophy is doubt.
- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De
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Best Quotes about Philosophers and philosophy

1.
When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.
Lippmann, Walter

2.
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

3.
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

4.
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

5.
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
Diderot, Denis

6.
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

7.
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

8.
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.

9.
Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?
Pinter, Harold

10.
Philosophy is doubt.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

11.
The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
Stevens, Wallace

12.
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

13.
Philosophy is the product of wonder.
Whitehead, Alfred North

14.
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

15.
If he really thinks there is no distinction between vice and virtue, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.
Johnson, Samuel

16.
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

17.
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

18.
Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.
Cicero, Marcus T.

19.
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

20.
What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing about the origin and destiny of cats?
Thoreau, Henry David

21.
Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.
Hegel, Georg

22.
The pursuit of what is true and the practice of what is good are the two most important objects of philosophy.
Voltaire

23.
One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
Burroughs, John

24.
Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.
Rohn, Jim

25.
There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.
Maistre, Joseph De

26.
Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.
There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.
Descartes, Rene

28.
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

29.
Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
Seneca

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

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

33.
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

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

35.
Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.
Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

36.
Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.
Brookner, Anita

37.
The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study.
Hegel, Georg

38.
Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labor of its unfamiliar thought.
Yeats, William Butler

39.
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

40.
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

41.
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

42.
Plato was a bore.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

43.
The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.
Chesterton, Gilbert K.

44.
If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.
Lichtenberg, Georg C.

45.
Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

48.
Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
Rousseau, Jean Jacques

49.
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

50.
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


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