Quotes about Wisdom In Philosophy

Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.

The name Bowie just appealed to me when I was younger. I was into a kind of heavy philosophy thing when I was 16 years old, and I wanted a truism about cutting through the lies and all that.

The new religion without any secrets is philosophy. The old religion, said Aristotle, is necessary only for the uneducated; Confucius, Buddha, Voltaire and Lessing were of the same opinion.

Never judge a philosophy by its abuse.

To scorn philosophy is truly to philosophize.

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Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth; it is like the golden cloud in which the Messiah went up into heaven.

Since all stoicism is really just a harsher form of epicureanism

Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.

Qué es, pues, lo único que puede guiarnos en este mundo? Una sola y única cosa: la filosofía.

Never judge a philosophy by its abuse

Tis better not to be than to vilely live. Greedy of gain is every barbarous tribe.

Il ne fait aucun doute pour moi que la sagesse est le but principal de la vie et c'est pourquoi je reviens toujours aux stoïciens. Ils ont atteint la sagesse, on ne peut donc plus les appeler des philosophes au sens propre du terme. De mon point de vue, la sagesse est le terme naturel de la philosophie, sa fin dans les deux sens du mot. Une philosophie finit en sagesse et par là même disparaît.

If he 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 that Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

proper task of philosophy is to remind ourselves of what we already know to be true:

So I withdrew and thought to myself: 'I am wiser than this man; it is likely that neither of us knows anything worthwhile, but he thinks he knows something when he does not, whereas when I do not know, neither do I think I know; so I am likely to be wiser than he to this small extent, that I do not think I know what I do not know.

Those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for death and dying...

When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.

But also philosophy is not about perceptible substances they, you see, are prone to destruction.

T]hose who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men.

For it is clear, on the one hand, that you have been familiar with these things for a long time —whatever you wish to signify when you utter being— and, before this we used to believe it, but now we have been perplexed.

Philosophy should take thoughts that are otherwise turbid and blurred, so to speak, and make them clear and sharp.

Philosophy should inspire people with a sense of purpose and instill in them the power to lead life to the fullest.

Philosophie, die Liebe zur Wahrheit, ist im tiefsten Grunde die Abwehr des Unbegreiflichen.