Quotes
Quotes about Philosophy
It goes much against my stomach. Hast any philosophy in thee, shepherd?
Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
There is something in this more than natural, if philosophy could find it out.
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
Philosophy is nothing but discretion.
Vain wisdom all and false philosophy.
How charming is divine philosophy!
Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose,
But musical as is Apollo's lute,
And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets
Where no crude surfeit reigns.
We spent them not in toys, in lusts, or wine,
But search of deep philosophy,
Wit, eloquence, and poetry;
Arts which I lov'd, for they, my friend, were thine.
Thy steady temper, Portius,
Can look on guilt, rebellion, fraud, and Cæsar,
In the calm lights of mild philosophy.
I have read somewhere or other,--in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think,--that history is philosophy teaching by examples.
This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.
The bosom-weight, your stubborn gift,
That no philosophy can lift.
Triumphal arch, that fill'st the sky
When storms prepare to part,
I ask not proud Philosophy
To teach me what thou art.
There was an awful rainbow once in heaven:
We know her woof, her texture; she is given
In the dull catalogue of common things.
Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.
Hold thou the good; define it well;
For fear divine Philosophy
Should push beyond her mark, and be
Procuress to the Lords of Hell.
What is the first business of one who studies philosophy? To part with self-conceit. For it is impossible for any one to begin to learn what he thinks that he already knows.
Asked what he gained from philosophy, he answered, "To do without being commanded what others do from fear of the laws."
Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.
It may be that love turned to hate is terribly common in sexual matters: it may be that hate turned to love is not uncommon in the rivalries of race or class. But any philosophy about the sexes that begins with anything but the mutual attraction of the sexes, begins with a fallacy; and all its historical comparisons are as irrelevant and impertinent as puns.
All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
Music is a higher revelation than philosophy.
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
Music is a higher revelation than philosophy.
