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Quotes About Philosophy

A man of business may talk of philosophy a man who has none may practise it.
~ Alexander Pope
Adversity's sweet milk philosophy.
~ William Shakespeare
Reason is your means of survival — so that for you, who are a human being, the question 'to be or not to be' is the question 'to think or not to think..'.
~ Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
To teach how to live with uncertainty and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy in our age can still do for those who study it.
~ Bertrand Russell
There are more things in heaven and earth Horatio Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
~ William Shakespeare
The anti-mind is the anti-life.
~ Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.
~ Isaac Newton
For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize.
~ Aristotle, Metaphysics
Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings Conquer all mysteries by rule and line Empty the haunted air the gnomed mine -Unweave a rainbow.
~ John Keats
The whole interest of my reason, whether speculative or practical, is concentrated in the three following questions: What can I know? What should I do? What may I hope? (Critique of Pure Reason
~ Immanuel Kant
The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important objects of philosophy.
~ Voltaire
Do not all charms fly / At the mere touch of cold philosophy?
~ John Keats 1795-1821
Philosophy is doubt.
~ Michel de Montaigne
But I don't think we shall quarrel about a word - the subject of our inquiry is too important for that.
~ Plato, The Republic
He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one's gaze.
~ Galileo Galilei
To leave is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
There are three sources of belief: reason, custom, inspiration.
~ Blaise Pascal, Pensées
Philosophy, that leaned on Heaven before, Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more.
~ Alexander Pope, The Dunciad
For there was never yet philosopher That could endure the toothache patiently.
~ William Shakespeare
Man is free rather than man is freedom.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms.
~ Alexander the Great
As commonly practiced, philosophy is the attempt to find good reasons for conventional beliefs.
~ John N Gray
Thoughts have unique beauties you will never able to express it in words.
~ Debasish Mridha
My number one philosophy for leadership is leadership by example. If you are not willing to do it yourself, how can you show others how to do it?
~ Linda McMahon