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54 quotes (Page 2 of 3 pages)Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.
Philosophers and Philosophy
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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Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
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Henry Brooks Adams
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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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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun