Quotes About Philosophy

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere Philosophy.

Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.

A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.

Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy.

I discovered philosophy in my youth when I read wildly, and thus I was exposed to the world of ideas.

Philosophy had supplied Socrates with convictions in which he had been able to have rational, as opposed to hysterical, confidence when faced with disapproval.

Philosophy may in no way interfere with the actual use of language; it can in the end only describe it.

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

I was ready to accept the philosophy that the Party is right and that in the coming struggle you could not permit yourself any doubts after the party had made a decision.

You need at least six or seven years to understand the philosophy and concentration of karate to know to clean your spirit of everything and dedicate your mind and body to the sport.

Faith and philosophy are air, but events are brass.

In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was made for man.

Microsoft's philosophy is to get it out there and fix it later. Steve [Jobs] would never do that. He doesn't get anything out there until it is perfected.

Management philosophy: Pay attention to the vital fiew and ignore the trivial many. I could go insane if I obsessed over every little details of all my companies.

Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week.

The only philosophy is that of language, the only religion is that of the word.

Philosophy unravels the knots in our thinking; hence its results must be simple, but its activity is as complicated as the knots that it unravels.

Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy, doubt (called by Galileo the father of invention), be in religion what the priests term it, the greatest of sins?

Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.

The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.

My philosophy is inverted Platonism: the further a thing is from true being, the purer, the lovelier, the better it is. Living inillusion as a goal!

Science is what we know, and philosophy is what we don't know.

We come late, if at all, to wine and philosophy: whiskey and action are easier.