Quotes About Philosophy

Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than this.

The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes, or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.

A man becomes a philosopher by reason of a certain perplexity, from which he seeks to free himself.

Such a man, truly wise, creams off Nature leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up.

One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.

I find it's a very positive movement and something you can do every day in little ways. Our philosophy on the website (www.greenissexy.org) is not to have green guilt, do what you can.

I practice stoic philosophy. As a human being, you may have emotions, but these don't need to affect your soul. The two are not one.

Am I an Apple bigot? No. I can critique their products and their customer service philosophy. But overall, they do better than any other player.

It seems essential to try to find some meaning to life and I guess Jungian philosophy is the one that's helped me understand myself and the world more than anything else.

No doubt metaphors are dangerous- and perhaps especially so in philosophy. But a prohibition against their use would be a willful and harmful restriction upon our powers of inquiry.

And if no Lethe flows beneath your casement, And when ten years have not brought full effacement, Philosophy was wrong, and you may meet.

When I read philosophy or neuroscience papers about consciousness, I don't get the sense we're any closer to understanding it than we were 50 years ago.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

Before philosophy can teach by Experience, the Philosophy has to be in readiness, the Experience must be gathered and intelligibly recorded.

Philosophy appears to concern itself only with the truth, but perhaps expresses only fantasies, while literature appears to concern itself only with fantasies, but perhaps it expresses the truth.

In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance, the last is the parent of adoration.

I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art.

I majored in Chinese. I was never really good at Chinese but I really, really benefited from having been exposed to Asian philosophy early in my life.

The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearances of reconciliation between the theory and the practice of life.

The God to whom depth in philosophy bring back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them

REALITY, n. The dream of a mad philosopher. That which would remain in the cupel if one should assay a phantom. The nucleus of a vacuum.

Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.

The whole point of view of the anarchist is that everything must start from the bottom up, from man. It seems to me so human a philosophy.

Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it?