Philosophy Quotes

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.

H. L. Mencken

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

Margaret Thatche

Philosophy is the highest music.

Plato

The agenda of the roadblock is the philosophy of the stop sign.

George W. Bush, Speech (2005)

What is the first business of one who practices philosophy To get rid of self - Conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.

Epictetus

Religion is a man using a divining rod. Philosophy is a man using a pick and shovel.

Author Unknown

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

C. S. Lewis

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy... neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

John W. Gardne

True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.

Victor Cousin

Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.

Oscar Wilde

All philosophy lies in two words Sustain and Abstain.

Epictetus

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

Dalai Llama

Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.

Sydney Harris

To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

Yann Martel, Life of Pi

Histories make men wise poets, witty the mathematics, subtle natural philosophy, deep moral, grave logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

Francis Bacon

I have gained this by philosophy that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

Aristotle

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

Henry David Thoreau

Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex.

Karl Marx

Keep me away from the wisdom that does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Kahlil Gibran

A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion.

Charles Peguy

Music is a higher revelation than philosophy.

Ludwig van Beethoven

History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.

James A. Garfield

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

Henry Ward Beeche

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

William Shakespeare

We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev