Famous Philosophy Quote

Famous Philosophy Quote

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
Francis Bacon

Sublime Philosophy! Thou art the patriarch's ladder, reaching heaven; And bright with beckoning angels--but alas! We see thee like the patriarch, but in dreams, By the first step,--dull slumbering on the earth. Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton
Beside, he was a shrewd philosopher, And had read ev'ry text and gloss over Whate'er the crabbed'st author hath, He understood b' implicit faith.
Samuel Butler (1)

Before philosophy can teach by Experience, the Philosophy has to be in readiness, the Experience must be gathered and intelligibly recorded.
Thomas Carlyle

O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee? Thou hast produced cities; thou hast called men scattered about into the social enjoyment of life. [Lat., O vitae philosophia dux! O virtutis indagatrix, expultrixque vitiorum! Quid non modo nos, sed omnino vita hominum sine et esse potuisset? Tu urbes peperisti; tu dissipatos homines in societatum vitae convocasti.]
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.
Denis Diderot

The Beginning of Philosophy . . . is a Consciousness of your own Weakness and inability in necessary things.
Epictetus

Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.
James Anthony Froude

This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.
Oliver Goldsmith

How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh, and crabbed, as full fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns. John Milton

That stone, . . . Philosophers in vain so long have sought.
John Milton

To ridicule philosophy is truly philosophical. [Fr., Se moquer de la philosophie c'est vraiment philosophe.]
Blaise Pascal

Philosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines.
Gilbert Ryle

Philosophy is nothing but Discretion.
John Selden

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

I'll give thee armor to keep off that word; Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy, To comfort thee, though thou art banished.
William Shakespeare

The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.
George Bernard Shaw

Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers. [Fr., La clarte est la bonne foi des philosophes.]
Luc de Clapier de Vauvanargues

Why should not grave Philosophy be styled. Herself, a dreamer of a kindred stock, A dreamer, yet more spiritless and dull?
William Wordsworth

The bosom-weight, your stubborn gift, That no philosophy can lift.
William Wordsworth

Questions focus our thinking. Ask empowering questions like: What's good about this? What's not perfect about it yet? What am I going to do next time? How can I do this and have fund doing it?
Charles Connolly

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.
John Jay Chapman

It is easy to build a philosophy--it doesn't have to run.
Charles F. Kettering

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
Epictetus

Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously.
Bertrand Russell

A timid question will always receive a confident answer.
Lord Darling

Facts often contradict with truths.
David H.k. Leung

No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Any fool can say he is wise but only someone wise can admit he is a fool.
Michael Reed

The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
Anthony Jay

If you do not ask the right questions, you do not get the right answers. A question asked in the right way often points to its own answer. Asking questions is the A-B-C of diagnosis. Only the inquiring mind solves problems.
Edward Hodnett

A friend is the inspiration in you when you have lost all hope, and they bring out a world inside of you that you never knew you had.
by Tiffany Maynard

Thank you for the friendship you have offered, rest assured that I'll treasure it in my heart and will always remember that once in my life, I've known someone like you.
Melissa l. Magcawas





In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving - instead of actually getting up and leaving.
Erica Jong