Philosophy Quotes
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exaulted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy... neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.John W. Gardne
All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.Ernest Dimnet
We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils but present evils triumph over it.La Rochefoucauld
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.Bertrand Russell, The Philosophy of Logical Atomism
Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion.Charles Peguy
The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.John Adams
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.C. S. Lewis
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, Scene 5
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.John W. Gardne
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.Epictetus
Keep me away from the wisdom that does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.Kahlil Gibran
We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - - what I am is beyond my control - - For the philosophy of responsibility.Barbara Charline Jordan
All philosophy lies in two words Sustain and Abstain.Epictetus
Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.Eugene Delacroix
Histories make men wise poets, witty the mathematics, subtle natural philosophy, deep moral, grave logic and rhetoric, able to contend.Francis Bacon
You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.Margaret Thatche
Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to enduring fact of mystery.Henry Mille
The agenda of the roadblock is the philosophy of the stop sign.George W. Bush, Speech (2005)
History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning its two eyes are geography and chronology.James A. Garfield
Leisure is the mother of philosophy.Thomas Hobbes
Having a personal philosophy is like having a pet marmoset, because it may be very attractive when you acquire it, but there may be situations when it will not come in handy at all.Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Grimm Grotto
The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.Henry Ward Beeche
Music is a higher revelation than philosophy.Ludwig van Beethoven
Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the real world since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.Giacomo Leopardi
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men... the master of superstition is the people and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order.Francis Bacon
Philosophy is a game with objectives and no rules. Mathematics is a game with rules and no objectives.Anonymous
Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.Sydney Harris
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.Albert Camus
We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.Henry David Thoreau
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.Ludwig Wittgenstein
Friendship is not necessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.Clive Staples Lewis
Religion is a man using a divining rod. Philosophy is a man using a pick and shovel.Author Unknown
Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.Francois De La Rochefoucauld
