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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
Philosophers and philosophy Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Philosophers and philosophy

1.
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

2.
Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig

3.
Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.
Cicero, Marcus T.

4.
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

5.
The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
Stevens, Wallace

6.
Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.
Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

7.
To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.
James, William

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

9.
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

10.
Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?
Gauguin, Paul

11.
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

12.
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

13.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full and scratch where it itches.
Longworth, Alice Roosevelt

14.
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

15.
There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.
Cicero, Marcus T.

16.
I have tried too in my time to be a philosopher; but, I don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in.
Edwards, Oliver

17.
Many talk like philosophers yet live like fools.
Proverb

18.
Philosophers are only men in armor after all.
Dickens, Charles

19.
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

20.
Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
Rousseau, Jean Jacques

21.
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

22.
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.

23.
Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
Camus, Albert

24.
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

25.
Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life.
Carnegie, Dale

26.
If he really thinks there is no distinction between vice and virtue, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.
Johnson, Samuel

27.
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

28.
The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study.
Hegel, Georg

29.
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

30.
Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.
Miller, Henry

31.
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

32.
Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737.
Smith, Sydney

33.
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

34.
Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.
Brookner, Anita

35.
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

36.
Bad philosophers may have a certain influence; good philosophers, never.
Russell, Bertrand

37.
There is no record in history of a happy philosopher.
Mencken, H. L.

38.
Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

39.
Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?
Pinter, Harold

40.
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

41.
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

42.
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

43.
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

44.
What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind.
Berkeley, George

45.
Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labor of its unfamiliar thought.
Yeats, William Butler

46.
There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.
Maistre, Joseph De

47.
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

48.
Philosophy may be dodged, eloquence cannot.
Quinet, Edgar

49.
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

50.
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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