Philosophy Quotes
Leisure is the mother of philosophy.Thomas Hobbes
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
Philosophy is a game with objectives and no rules. Mathematics is a game with rules and no objectives.Anonymous
Philosophy is the science which considers truth.Aristotle
Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.Oscar Wilde
All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.Ernest Dimnet
Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.Isaac Asimov
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
Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils but present evils triumph over it.La Rochefoucauld
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.Ludwig Wittgenstein
Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the diciplines or continue the errors.Unknown
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
We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - - what I am is beyond my control - - For the philosophy of responsibility.Barbara Charline Jordan
What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self - Conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.Epictetus, Discourses
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
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
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
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
On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world - Art, or philosophy, or learning - Regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.Freya Stark
Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.Sydney Harris
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.William Shakespeare
You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.Ayn Rand
Music is a higher revelation than philosophy.Ludwig van Beethoven
I have gained this by philosophy that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.Aristotle
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
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.Dalai Llama
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
Histories make men wise poets, witty the mathematics, subtle natural philosophy, deep moral, grave logic and rhetoric, able to contend.Francis Bacon
History is philosophy teaching by examples.Henry St. John Bolingbroke
Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.Margaret Thatche
Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex.Karl Marx
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
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.Oprah Winfrey
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
True philosophy invents nothing it merely establishes and describes what is.Victor Cousin
