Philosophers and Philosophy Quotes
55 quotations about Philosophers and Philosophy
Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind.
A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.
One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.
A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.
There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.
Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.
Philosophers are only men in armor after all.
Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?
Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.
If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers.
Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.
Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?
The philosopher must station themselves in the middle.
The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study.
Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.
To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.
Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.
If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.
Authors on Philosophers and Philosophy
Henry Brooks Adams
Francis Bacon
George Berkeley
Ambrose Bierce
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
John Burroughs
Albert Camus
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Marcus T. Cicero
Charles Dickens
Diogenes of Sinope
Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Frederick II) Frederick The Great
James A. Froude
Paul Gauguin
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Georg Hegel
William James
Georg C. Lichtenberg