Quotes About Philosophy

The Occultists, however, know that the traditions of Esoteric Philosophy must be the right ones, simply because they are the most logical, and reconcile every difficulty.

I call him free who is led solely by reason.

If tomorrow were never to come, it would not be worth living today.

In philosophy an individual is becoming himself.

The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language.

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.

He who says either that the time for philosophy has not yet come or that it has passed is like someone who says that the time for happiness has not yet come or that it has passed.

What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.

All genuine philosophy transcends national boundaries. Patriotic philosophies are just nationalist ideologies.

The true Philosophy, known and practised by Solomon, is the basis on which Masonry is founded.

The permanent mental attitude which the sensitive intelligence derives from philosophy is an attitude that combines extreme reverence with limitless skepticism.

My judicial philosophy is fidelity to the law.

A fad lives its life in a few weeks; a philosophy lives through generations and centuries; a principle, forever.

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.

There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.

Demons were like genies or philosophy professors - if you didn't word things exactly right, they delighted in giving you absolutely accurate and completely misleading answers.

Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.

The one thing that unifies men in a given age is not their individual philosophies but the dominant problem that these philosophies are designed to solve.

...love rather than fear...this radical philosophy is coming from me, an avowed misanthrope...surely there is hope for us all.

You can't better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.

What we learn from experience depends on the kind of philosophy we bring to experience.

You've got a degree in philosophy; so you think you're cleverer than me. But I'm not just some drama queen. Cause it's where you're at, not where you've been.