Philosophers and Philosophy Quotes
55 quotations about Philosophers and Philosophy
When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full and scratch where it itches.
In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was made for man.
There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.
There is no record in history of a happy philosopher.
Philosophy is doubt.
Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!
In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.
Plato was a bore.
Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.
To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?
Many talk like philosophers yet live like fools.
Philosophy may be dodged, eloquence cannot.
Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.
Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it!
Bad philosophers may have a certain influence; good philosophers, never.
Philosophy is nothing but discretion.
Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
For there was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently.
There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophies.
The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.
What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing about the origin and destiny of cats?
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