Quotes on philosophy
Religion is a man using a divining rod. Philosophy is a man using a pick and shovel.
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Author Unknown Quotes
Philosophy is just a hobby. You can't open a philosophy factory.
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Dewey Selmon Quotes
Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.
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Aldous Huxley Quotes
Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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.
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Bertrand Russell Quotes
The natural philosophers are mostly gone. We modern scientists are adding too many decimals.
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Martin H. Fischer Quotes
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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Immanuel Kant Quotes
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.
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Louisa May Alcott Quotes
A little more than kin, and less than kind.
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William Shakespeare Quotes
Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty. I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led diffcult lives and led them well.
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Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
Philosophy is nothing but common sense in a dress suit.
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Author Unknown Quotes
Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.
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Alfred North Whitehead Quotes
I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam: I looked into the soul of another boy.
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Woody Allen Quotes
If you've never met a student from the University of Chicago, I'll describe him to you. If you give him a glass of water, he says, "This is a glass of water. But is it a glass of water? And if it is a glass of water, why is it a glass of water?" And eventually he dies of thirst.
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Shelley Berman Quotes
And this activity alone would seem to be loved for its own sake; for nothing arises from it apart from the contemplating, while from practical activities we gain more or less apart from the action. And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.
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Aristotle Quotes
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please - you can never have both.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Learning Zen is a phenomenon of gold and dung. Before you understand it, it's like gold; after you understand it, it's like dung.
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Zen Proverb Quotes
To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher.
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Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
The only difference between graffiti and philosophy is the word "fuck."
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Author Unknown Quotes
Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.
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Nicolas Chamfort Quotes
Art, science, philosophy, religion - each offers at best only a crude simplification of actual living experience.
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Edward Abbey Quotes
When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.
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Voltaire Quotes
Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
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Robert Zend Quotes
How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size?
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Woody Allen Quotes