Quotes About Philosophy

Philosophy is talk on a cereal box.

Philosophy cannot raise the commonalty up to her level: so, if she is to become popular, she must sink to theirs.

To take a gloomy view of life is not part of my philosophy; to laugh at the idiocies of my fellow creatures is. However, at this particular moment I cannot find so much to laugh at as I would like.

It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.

Materialist philosophies that treat human beings as machines or animals possess the high ground in our culture - academia, the most powerful media and many of our courts.

Education is not a discipline at all. Half vocational, half emptiness dressed up in garments borrowed from philosophy, psychology, literature.

The problem with emotion was that it was clearly something important, but-at least according to the old philosophy-it was something to overcome.

This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.

I think, therefore I'll think.

A moment or an eternity—did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist.

The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well as for those who study in arts faculties.

It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

To live entirely without a goal! I have glimpsed this state, and have often attained it, without managing to remain there: I am too weak for such happiness.

You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth.

A scientist may not be sure of the answer, but he's often sure he can find one. And that's a condition which is clearly not enjoyed by philosophy.

Philosophy is the rational expression of genius.

St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to attain the Divine. That is why all pre-Christian philosophy is theological at its summit.

It's living - a broad spectrum of living - that teaches you how to live, not philosophy. Philosophy teaches you how to think.

I do not own a single security anywhere that doesn't pay a dividend, and I formed a mutual-fund company with that very simple philosophy.

Your woodlot is, in fact, an historical document which faithfully records your personal philosophy.

All that philosophy can teach is to be stubborn or sullen under misfortunes.

Philosophy, as the modern world knows it, is only intellectual club-swinging.

Angels and Airwaves is a complete, pure reflection of who I am. The philosophy, the spiritualism, the esotericism, the idea of hope and space and the themes about life and grandeur that's all me.