Quotes
Quotes about Philosophy
History is a pageant, not a philosophy.
I have read somewhere or other, in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think, that history is philosophy teaching by examples.
The contact with manners then is education; and this Thucydides appears to assert when he says history is philosophy learned from examples.
Just as philosophy is the study of other people's misconceptions, so history is the study of other people's mistakes.
History is philosophy learned from examples.
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy.
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance.
Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
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.
Leisure is the mother of philosophy.
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.
Karma is the philosophy of an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. I reject that. I believe in the love and mercy of God.
If you look at history you'll find that no state has been so plagued by its rulers as when power has fallen into the hands of some dabbler in philosophy or literary addict.
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
A novel is never anything but a philosophy put into images.
The philosophy exam was a piece of cakeâwhich was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
When a bachelor of philosophy from the Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the grounds of his color I say that philosophy has never saved anyone. When someone else strives and strains to prove to me that black men are as intelligent as white men I say that intelligence has never saved anyone: and that is true, for, if philosophy and intelligence are invoked to proclaim the equality of men, they have also been employed to justify the extermination of men.
My studies in Speculative philosophy, metaphysics, and science are all summed up in the image of a mouse called man running in and out of every hole in the Cosmos hunting for the Absolute Cheese.
There are three schools of magic. One: State a tautology, then ring the changes on its corollaries; that's philosophy. Two: Record many facts. Try to find a pattern. Then make a wrong guess at the next fact; that's science. Three: Be aware that you live.
Money can't buy real friendshipâfriendship must be earned. Money can't buy a clear conscienceâsquare dealing is the price tag. Money can't buy the glow of good healthâright living is the secret. Money can't buy happinessâhappiness is a mental condition and one may be as happy in a cottage as in a mansion. Money can't buy sunsets, songs of wild birds and the music of the wind in the treesâthese are as free as the air we breath. Money can't buy inward peaceâpeace is the result of a constructive philosophy in life. Money can't buy a good characterâgood character is achieved through decent habits of private living and wholesome dealings in our open contacts with our fellow men.
Music is a higher revelation than philosophy.
