Quotes About Wisdom

Philosophy is the history of philosophy.

To be a philosopher... is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.

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.

The name Bowie just appealed to me when I was younger. I was into a kind of heavy philosophy thing when I was 16 years old, and I wanted a truism about cutting through the lies and all that.

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

What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.

Things always become obvious after the fact

Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.

When people begin to philosophize they seem to think it necessary to make themselves artificially stupid.

Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

This is the highest point of philosophy, to be simple & wise; this is the angelic life.

Zen is not a philosophy, it is poetry. It does not propose, it simply persuades. It does not argue, it simply sings its own song.

History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.

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.

I call him free who is led solely by reason.

The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

He who says either that the time for philosophy has not yet come or that it has passed is like someone who says that the time for happiness has not yet come or that it has passed.

What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.

The true Philosophy, known and practised by Solomon, is the basis on which Masonry is founded.

A fad lives its life in a few weeks; a philosophy lives through generations and centuries; a principle, forever.

What we learn from experience depends on the kind of philosophy we bring to experience.

Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.