Motivational Quotes

Philosophers and philosophy

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

Philosophers and philosophy Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Philosophers and philosophy

Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.

Stevens, Wallace

Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Philosophy is doubt.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Keep quiet and people will think you a philosopher.

What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind.

Berkeley, George

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

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

Miller, Henry

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If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Bergerac, Savinien Cyrano De

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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

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Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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

Edwards, Oliver

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Many talk like philosophers yet live like fools.

Proverb

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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

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The philosopher must station themselves in the middle.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Gauguin, Paul

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

Descartes, Rene

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Philosophy may be dodged, eloquence cannot.

Quinet, Edgar

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There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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

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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

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If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labor of its unfamiliar thought.

Yeats, William Butler

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Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

Camus, Albert

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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

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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

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A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.

Hegel, Georg

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

Marx, Karl

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Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Diderot, Denis

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Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!

Murdoch, Iris

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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

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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

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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

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Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

Rohn, Jim

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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

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When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.

Lippmann, Walter

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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

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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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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