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Philosophers and philosophy

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Philosophers and philosophy Motivational Quotes

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The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to debase him by showing his miseries.

Pascal, Blaise

Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.

Brookner, Anita

If He Tom Sawyer had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Twain, Mark

The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.

Marx, Karl

Many talk like philosophers yet live like fools.

Proverb

Philosophy may be dodged, eloquence cannot.

Quinet, Edgar

In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.

Murdoch, Iris

The philosopher believes that the value of his philosophy lies in the whole, in the building: posterity discovers it in the bricks with which he built and which are then often used again for better building: in the fact, that is to say, that building can be destroyed and nonetheless possess value as material.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study.

Hegel, Georg

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The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.

Reade, W. Winwood

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What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind.

Berkeley, George

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To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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The pursuit of what is true and the practice of what is good are the two most important objects of philosophy.

Voltaire

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Philosophers are only men in armor after all.

Dickens, Charles

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In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.

Leary, Timothy

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There is no record in history of a happy philosopher.

Mencken, H. L.

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If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.

James, William

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A writer must always try to have a philosophy and he should also have a psychology and a philology and many other things. Without a philosophy and a psychology and all these various other things he is not really worthy of being called a writer. I agree with Kant and Schopenhauer and Plato and Spinoza and that is quite enough to be called a philosophy. But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.

Stein, Gertrude

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I have tried too in my time to be a philosopher; but, I don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in.

Edwards, Oliver

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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing about the origin and destiny of cats?

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Miller, Henry

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Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.

Zend, Robert

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There is today-in a time when old beliefs are withering-a kind of philosophical hunger, a need to know who we are and how we got here. It is an on-going search, often unconscious, for a cosmic perspective for humanity.

Sagan, Carl Edward

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The philosopher must station themselves in the middle.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy.

Voltaire

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Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

Socrates

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I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full and scratch where it itches.

Longworth, Alice Roosevelt

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We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innocence, to find our way out of the rubble of things alien to us, to begin to feel for ourselves and to speak ourselves, and I might almost say to exist ourselves.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the insoluble problems in all their insolubility and then in simply contemplating them, fixedly and tirelessly, year after year, without any hope, patiently waiting.

Weil, Simone

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Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

Rohn, Jim

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The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Reason, progress, unselfishness, a wide historical perspective, expansiveness, generosity, enlightened self-interest. I had heard it all my life, and it filled me with despair.

Tait, Katherine

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Keep quiet and people will think you a philosopher.

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The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.

Diderot, Denis

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There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.

Maistre, Joseph De

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Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand.

Canetti, Elias

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Plato was a bore.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Philosophy always requires something more, requires the eternal, the true, in contrast to which even the fullest existence as such is but a happy moment.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.

Lippmann, Walter

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All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?

Kant, Immanuel

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Philosophy is a bully that talks loud when the danger is at a distant; but, the moment she is pressed hard by an enemy, she is nowhere to be found and leaves the brunt of the battle to be fought by her steady, humble comrade, religion.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them.

Plato

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Philosophy is the product of wonder.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.

Seneca

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Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.