Philosophers and Philosophy Quotes

55 quotations about Philosophers and Philosophy
When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.
Walter Lippmann · Philosophers and Philosophy
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full and scratch where it itches.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth · Philosophers and Philosophy
In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was made for man.
Thomas B. Macaulay · Philosophers and Philosophy
There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.
Joseph De Maistre · Philosophers and Philosophy
There is no record in history of a happy philosopher.
H. L. Mencken · Philosophers and Philosophy
Philosophy is doubt.
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne · Philosophers and Philosophy
Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!
Iris Murdoch · Philosophers and Philosophy
In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.
Iris Murdoch · Philosophers and Philosophy
Plato was a bore.
Friedrich Nietzsche · Philosophers and Philosophy
Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.
Friedrich Nietzsche · Philosophers and Philosophy
To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
Blaise Pascal · Philosophers and Philosophy
Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?
Harold Pinter · Philosophers and Philosophy
Many talk like philosophers yet live like fools.
Proverb · Philosophers and Philosophy
Philosophy may be dodged, eloquence cannot.
Edgar Quinet · Philosophers and Philosophy
Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.
Jim Rohn · Philosophers and Philosophy
Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
Jean Jacques Rousseau · Philosophers and Philosophy
Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it!
Joseph Roux · Philosophers and Philosophy
Bad philosophers may have a certain influence; good philosophers, never.
Bertrand Russell · Philosophers and Philosophy
Philosophy is nothing but discretion.
John Selden · Philosophers and Philosophy
Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
Seneca · Philosophers and Philosophy
For there was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently.
William Shakespeare · Philosophers and Philosophy
There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophies.
William Shakespeare · Philosophers and Philosophy
The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
Wallace Stevens · Philosophers and Philosophy
Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.
Wallace Stevens · Philosophers and Philosophy
What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing about the origin and destiny of cats?
Henry David Thoreau · Philosophers and Philosophy

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