Quotes About Philosophy

Most mistakes in philosophy and logic occur because the human mind is apt to take the symbol for the reality.

Hillary Clinton appears to believe in a form of stoicism - which is a tried and true life philosophy.

Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes and compel it to inquire about life and standards and goods and evils.

In philosophy, the principles are more interesting than the examples. In literature, the examples are more interesting than the principles.

Without philosophy, action has no meaning.

All is well... That's my new philosophy.

If you would enjoy real freedom, you must be the slave of Philosophy.

My scholarly expectation is then that I may succeed in becoming clever in philosophy in spite of my stupidity.

... we can bear with great philosophy the sufferings of others, especially if we do not actually see them.

In the western philosophy you can't perceive infinities at every moment. It's not there to do.

When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy.

[The monks'] credulity debased and vitiated the faculties of the mind: they corrupted the evidence of history; and superstition gradually extinguished the hostile light of philosophy and science.

Probabilities direct the conduct of the wise man.

Philosophy - hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.

My philosophy is that one shall not resort to violence unless one is resolved to become the subject of violence at any time.

Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it!

Aristotle is the last Greek philosopher who faces the world cheerfully; after him, all have, in one form or another, a philosophy of retreat.

The emblem of a philosophy is not that it contains a set of specific thoughts , but that it generates a way of thinking.

There is an ocean of endless opportunities, and there are so many things that one can do. I'm so fortunate that I've grown up with this sort of a philosophy and mentality.

Das Ganze der Erfahrung gleicht einer Geheimschrift und die Philosophie der Entzifferung derselben. The whole of experience is like a cryptograph, and philosophy is like the deciphering of it.

My interest in philosophy began as early as eight years old - I started thinking about those kinds of heavy questions about life and humanity.

If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar.

Philosophy may describe unreasoning, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thought.