PHILOSOPHY QUOTES VII

quotations about philosophy

A philosopher is one who disengages himself from all former prejudices, masters his passions, and learns to think, speak, and act, according to rule and order. He is ready to teach, but more ready to learn. He is of all, and yet of no sect.... If he thinks with few, it is not because they are few, but because there are few that think.

ANNE MARY PERCEVAL

Miscellaneous Thoughts, Maxims, Essays, Aphorisms, and Extracts


Philosophy: impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.

EMIL CIORAN

A Short History of Decay

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Philosophy is life's dry-nurse, who can take care of us -- but not suckle us.

SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Journals and Papers, 1837

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Too much philosophy makes men mad.

ALAN JUDD

The Noonday Devil


You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy
But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!

BERTOLT BRECHT

The Threepenny Opera

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To ridicule philosophy is really to act the part of a philosopher.

BLAISE PASCAL

attributed, Day's Collacon

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The philosopher is neither a chemist, a smith, a merchant, or a manufacturer; but he both teaches and is taught by all of them; and his prayer is that the intellectual light may be as general as the solar, and uncontrolled.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon

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A scientists asks why philosophy matters. The philosopher counters and asks "Why does science matter?" The scientist thinks for a moment before replying that science matters because ... and here, the philosopher interrupts him and says. "You're doing philosophy."

ERIC METAXAS

"Bill Nye the Science Guy Doesn't Get Philosophy", Christian Post, April 2, 2016


In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fills up the interspace: but the first is the wonder-offspring of ignorance, the last is the parent of adoration. The first is the birth-throe of our knowledge; the last is its euthanasy and apotheosis.

STEPHEN TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Aids to Reflection