Philosophy Quotations
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Bertrand Russell
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| My definition [of a philosopher] is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down. |
| - Louisa May Alcott |
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| I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam: I looked into the soul of another boy. |
| - Woody Allen |
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| Philosophy is nothing but common sense in a dress suit. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Religion is a man using a divining rod. Philosophy is a man using a pick and shovel. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| The only difference between graffiti and philosophy is the word "fuck." |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing. |
| - Ambrose Bierce |
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| All philosophies, if you ride them, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others. |
| - Samuel Butler |
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| There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it. |
| - Cicero |
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| There is nothing so ridiculous but some philosopher has said it. |
| - Cicero |
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| One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another. |
| - René Descartes |
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| When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don't have in my mouth. |
| - Albert Einstein |
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| God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please - you can never have both. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| What is the first business of philosophy? To part with self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn what he thinks that he already knows. |
| - Epictetus |
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| Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong. |
| - Richard P. Feynman |
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| The natural philosophers are mostly gone. We modern scientists are adding too many decimals. |
| - Martin H. Fischer |
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| Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations. |
| - Aldous Huxley |
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| There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers. |
| - William James |
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| Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck. |
| - Immanuel Kant |
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| Philosophy will clip an angel's wings. |
| - John Keats |
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| We come late, if at all, to wine and philosophy: whiskey and action are easier. |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
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| Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself. |
| - Henry Louis Mencken |
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| To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher. |
| - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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| To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize. |
| - Blaise Pascal |
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| Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it. |
| - Francois de la Rochefoucauld |
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| I also realized that the philosophers, far from ridding me of my vain doubts, only multiplied the doubts that tormented me and failed to remove any one of them. So I chose another guide and said, Let me follow the Inner Light; it will not lead me so far astray as others have done, or if it does it will be my own fault, and I shall not go so far wrong if I follow my own illusions as if I trusted to their deceits. |
| - Jean Jacques Rousseau |
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| Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they invent systems which make the future calculable, at least in its main outlines. |
| - Bertrand Russell |
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| 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 |
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| This is patently absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities. |
| - Bertrand Russell |
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| To teach how to live with uncertainty, yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy can do. |
| - Bertrand Russell |
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| I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine. |
| - Bertrand Russell |
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| There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker. |
| - Charles M. Schulz |
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| There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. |
| - William Shakespeare |
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| Get married, in any case. If you happen to get a good mate, you will be happy; if a bad one, you will become philosophical, which is a fine thing in itself. |
| - Socrates |
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| When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics. |
| - Voltaire |
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| Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains. |
| - Alfred North Whitehead |
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| Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution. |
| - Robert Zend |
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