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A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
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A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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Ambrose Bierce
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A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
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22 votes
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
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Ambrose Bierce
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Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?
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Harold Pinter
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Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?
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Paul Gauguin
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Bad philosophers may have a certain influence; good philosophers, never.
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Bertrand Russell
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Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
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Robert Zend
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Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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For there was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently.
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William Shakespeare
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I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full and scratch where it itches.
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Alice Roosevelt Longworth
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If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers.
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(Frederick II) Frederick The Great
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If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.
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Georg C. Lichtenberg
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In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.
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Iris Murdoch
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In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was made for man.
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Thomas B. Macaulay
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Keep quiet and people will think you a philosopher.
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Source Unknown
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Many talk like philosophers yet live like fools.
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Proverb
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Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?
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Diogenes of Sinope
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79 votes
One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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John Burroughs
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Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.
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Wallace Stevens
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Philosophers are only men in armor after all.
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Charles Dickens
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Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it!
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Joseph Roux
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Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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Seneca
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Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.
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James A. Froude
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Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.
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William James
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Philosophy is doubt.
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Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Philosophy is nothing but discretion.
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John Selden
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Philosophy is the product of wonder.
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Alfred North Whitehead
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Philosophy may be dodged, eloquence cannot.
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Edgar Quinet
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Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!
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Iris Murdoch
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Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.
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Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
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Plato was a bore.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.
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Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.
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Marcus T. Cicero
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Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
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Jean Jacques Rousseau
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The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study.
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Georg Hegel
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The philosopher must station themselves in the middle.
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
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Wallace Stevens
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There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophies.
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William Shakespeare
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There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.
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Joseph De Maistre
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There is no record in history of a happy philosopher.
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H. L. Mencken
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There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.
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Marcus T. Cicero
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Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
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Albert Camus
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To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.
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William James
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To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
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Blaise Pascal
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Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.
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Georg Hegel
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22 votes
Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
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Henry Brooks Adams
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70 votes
We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
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Francis Bacon
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