Philosophy Quotes

Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.

Eugene Delacroix

Philosophy is the highest music.

Plato

Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently.

Anon.

I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

Yann Martel, Life of Pi

All philosophy lies in two words Sustain and Abstain.

Epictetus

Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

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

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

You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.

James A. Garfield

The most important principle of divine philosophy is the oneness of the world of humanity, the unity of mankind, the bond conjoining East and West, the tie of love which blends human hearts.

Abdul Baha, April 19, 1912, Earl Hall

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophy is a game with objectives and no rules. Mathematics is a game with rules and no objectives.

Anonymous

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... it has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival.

C. S. Lewis

Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to enduring fact of mystery.

Henry Mille

Histories make men wise poets, witty the mathematics, subtle natural philosophy, deep moral, grave logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

Francis Bacon

For academic men to be happy, the universe would have to take shape. All of philosophy has no other goal: it is a matter of giving a frock coat to what is, a mathematical frock coat. On the other hand, affirming that the universe resembles nothing and is only formless amounts to saying that the universe is something like a spider or spit.

Battaille

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

William Shakespeare

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

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

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

I have gained this by philosophy that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

Aristotle

Leisure is the mother of philosophy.

Thomas Hobbes