Quotes
Quotes about Philosophy
What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
Before philosophy can teach by Experience, the Philosophy has to be in readiness, the Experience must be gathered and intelligibly recorded.
O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee? Thou hast produced cities; thou hast called men scattered about into the social enjoyment of life. [Lat., O vitae philosophia dux! O virtutis indagatrix, expultrixque vitiorum! Quid non modo nos, sed omnino vita hominum sine et esse potuisset? Tu urbes peperisti; tu dissipatos homines in societatum vitae convocasti.]
The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.
The Beginning of Philosophy . . . is a Consciousness of your own Weakness and inability in necessary things.
Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.
This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.
How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh, and crabbed, as full fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
To ridicule philosophy is truly philosophical. [Fr., Se moquer de la philosophie c'est vraiment philosophe.]
Philosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines.
Philosophy is nothing but Discretion.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
I'll give thee armor to keep off that word; Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy, To comfort thee, though thou art banished.
Why should not grave Philosophy be styled. Herself, a dreamer of a kindred stock, A dreamer, yet more spiritless and dull?
The bosom-weight, your stubborn gift, That no philosophy can lift.
It is easy to build a philosophy--it doesn't have to run.
All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously.
All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy. - What We Live By.
Philosophy, when superficially studied, excites doubt; when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
Philosophy: unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently.
