Quotes About Philosophy

The British philosopher Bertrand Russell said that philosophy went downhill after Democritus and did not recover until the Renaissance.

Philosophy addresses, in a systematic and progress-making way, questions of deep concern to everyone.

Economists get impatient with philosophy. They are often trained as skilled mathematicians. They don't like going back to ordinary language and first principles.

As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.

The falsest of all philosophies is that which, under the pretext of delivering men from the embarrassment of their passions, counsels idleness and the abandonment and neglect of themselves.

In the mid-1960s, as hard to believe as it may be now, choosing to go into academic philosophy was not an imprudent career choice. There were lots of academic jobs in philosophy then.

The sensual experiences in life are not to be avoided. This is the philosophy of Tantric Buddhism - nor are they particularly to be sought after.

Fiction supplies the only philosophy that may readers know; it establishes their ethical, social, and material standards; it confirms them in their prejudices or opens their minds to a wider world.

The Flinstones wore furs, they ate red meat, and had a stoneage philosophy. In fact, they were the first Republicans.

I saw that philosophy had no power to make my life more bearable. Thus I lost my belief in philosophy.

There is always some accident in the best things, whether thoughts or expressions or deeds. The memorable thought, the happy expression, the admirable deed are only partly ours.

Folks know that while I respect Barack Obama and do not cheap-shot the president, I am very skeptical of his big government, nanny-state philosophy.

Science is a philosophy of discovery; intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance... Something fundamamental is going on in people's minds when they confront things they don't understnd.

That's a central part of philosophy, of ethics. What do I owe to strangers? What do I owe to my family? What is it to live a good life? Those are questions which we face as individuals.

When I was in my late teens I was already interested in philosophy.

Philosophy rests on a proposition that whatever is is right. Preaching begins by assuming that whatever is is wrong.

In good philosophy, the word cause ought to be reserved to the single Divine impulse that has formed the universe.

Philosophy is the self-correction by consciousness of its own initial excess of subjectivity.

The trouble begins with a design philosophy that equates 'more options' with 'greater freedom.'

My intent for EPs - and, really, my philosophy on my music - is that every single song has to be worth it.

The final philosophy is the ontology of God.

It's no use trying to talk philosophy to our politicians. And I'm not a moral or political philosopher. I'm not interested in that.

Philosophy has to be enquiring; it can take nothing on faith, and its methods are based not on the blind acceptance of authority, but on establishing truths by reason and argument.

Philosophers are in the habit of setting themselves before life and experience.