Quotes About Knowledge

All philosophies are mental fabrications. There has never been a single doctrine by which one could enter the true essence of things.

Superstition sets the whole world in flames, but philosophy douses them.

A philosophy can only be a route to knowledge. It cannot be knowledge crammed down one's throat. If one has a route, he can then find what is true for him. And that is Scientology.

Common sense is the folklore of philosophy.

There is, in fact, no teaching without learning.

Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.

What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.

No philosophy, my son; it is of no use to an emperor.

Some people say, "How can you live without knowing?" I do not know what they mean. I always live without knowing. That is easy. How you get to know is what I want to know.

I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.

he who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors

What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.

The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.

Philosophy is the history of philosophy.

Philosophy begins where religion ends, just as by analogy chemistry begins where alchemy runs out, and astronomy takes the place of astrology.

As I look back on it now, it's obvious that studying history and philosophy was much better preparation for the stock market than, say, studying statistics.

Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.

Philosophy as science, as serious, rigorous, indeed apodictically rigorous science -- the dream is over.

An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking.

The Occultists, however, know that the traditions of Esoteric Philosophy must be the right ones, simply because they are the most logical, and reconcile every difficulty.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us.