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When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don’t have in my mouth.
Author: Albert Einstein
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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
Author: Ambrose Bierce, Epigrams
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Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
Author: Ambrose Bierce, The Enlarged Devil’s Dictionary
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And this activity alone would seem to be loved for its own sake; for nothing arises from it apart from the contemplating, while from practical activities we gain more or less apart from the action. And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.
Author: Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics, ‘Book X: Pleasure and Happiness,’ translated by W.D. Ross
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Philosophy cannot raise the commonalty up to her level: so, if she is to become popular, she must sink to theirs.
Author: Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
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Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they invent systems which make the future calculable, at least in its main outlines.
Author: Bertrand Russell
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The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
Author: Bertrand Russell
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What is the first business of philosophy? To part with self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn what he thinks that he already knows.
Author: Epictetus, Discourses
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Philosophy is a state of fermentation, a process without final outcome.
Author: Esa Saarinen
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To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both – a philosopher.
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
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Upon the whole, I am inclined to think that the far greater part, if not all, of those difficulties which have hitherto amused philosophers, and blocked up the way to knowledge, are entirely owing to our selves. That we have first raised a dust, and then complain, we cannot see.
Author: George Berkeley
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
Author: Immanuel Kant
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I also realized that the philosophers, far from ridding me of my vain doubts, only multiplied the doubts that tormented me and failed to remove any one of them. So I chose another guide and said, Let me follow the Inner Light; it will not lead me so far astray as others have done, or if it does it will be my own fault, and I shall not go so far wrong if I follow my own illusions as if I trusted to their deceits.
Author: Jean Jacques Rousseau
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If everybody contemplates the infinite instead of fixing the drains, many of us will die of cholera.
Author: John Rich
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Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.
Author: La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1678
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The natural philosophers are mostly gone. We modern scientists are adding too many decimals.
Author: Martin H. Fischer
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We come late, if at all, to wine and philosophy: whiskey and action are easier.
Author: Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960
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Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Author: Robert Zend
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If you’ve never met a student from the University of Chicago, I’ll describe him to you. If you give him a glass of water, he says, ‘This is a glass of water. But is it a glass of water? And if it is a glass of water, why is it a glass of water?’ And eventually he dies of thirst.
Author: Shelley Berman
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Get married, in any case. If you happen to get a good mate, you will be happy; if a bad one, you will become philosophical, which is a fine thing in itself.
Author: Socrates, in Diogenes Laertius, Lives
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