Quotes About Philosophy

Jesus' philosophy in life seemed to be, "Let's confuse as many people for as long as we can". He was an enigma. I felt I could have no better role model.

Philosophy insists that there is a joy which is absolute, which never changes.

There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers

I believe philosophy must go to school with the poets; it's not either/or, it's not over or against.

As the profoundest philosophy of ancient Rome and Greece lighted her taper at Israel's altar, so the sweetest strains of the pagan muse were swept from harps attuned on Zion's hill.

It was my first meeting with a philosophy that confirmed my vague speculations and seemed at once logical and boundless.

I had four hundred thousand pages of continental philosophy and lit theory in my head. And by God, I was going to use it to prove to him that I was smarter than he was.

For the learning of every virtue there is an appropriate discipline, and for the learning of suspended judgment the best discipline is philosophy.

It's the Platonic philosophy in The Republic that philosophers should lead the country.

If your divines are not philosophers, your philosophy will neither be divine, nor able to divine.

Investment philosophy is the clear understanding that by owning shares of stocks he owns businesses, not pieces of paper.

Mann's Death in Venice actually contains a snippet of philosophy about the second question, when Aschenbach, collapsed in the plaza, engages in his quasi-Socratic, anti-Socratic, ruminations.

I am concerned, rather, that there should not be more things dreamt of in my philosophy than there are in heaven or earth.

We need fewer philosophies and more philosophers.

Philosophy should be an energy; it should find its aim and its effect in the amelioration of mankind.

If historians of philosophy are to be divided into those who focus on discontinuities and those who focus on continuities, I belong in the latter camp.

It is certain that memory contains not only philosophy, but all the arts and all that appertain to the use of life.

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

Every Profound thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood

Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.

Grammar and ordinary language are bad guides to metaphysics. A great book might be written showing the influence of syntax on philosophy.

Socrates: This man, on one hand, believes that he knows something, while not knowing [anything]. On the other hand, I – equally ignorant – do not believe [that I know anything].

Dove la moralità è troppo forte l'intelletto perisce.

Philosophy - the purple bullfinch in the lilac tree.