Philosophy Quotes: Wisdom for the Thinking Mind

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

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"I am now convinced that theoretical physics is actually philosophy"

Max Born, Mathematician

"The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers"

John Churton Collins, Critic

"Design is not for philosophy it's for life"

Issey Miyake, Designer

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

Sydney J. Harris, Journalist

"But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy"

George Eliot, Author

"Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

"I think philosophers can do things akin to theoretical scientists, in that, having read about empirical data, they too can think of what hypotheses and theories might account for that data. So there's a continuity between philosophy and science in that way"

Robert Nozick, Philosopher

"What I mean by photographing as a participant rather than observer is that I'm not only involved directly with some of the activities that I photograph, such as mountain climbing, but even when I'm not I have the philosophy that my mind and body are part of the natural world"

Galen Rowell, Photographer

"There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God"

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

"All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain"

Epictetus, Philosopher

"The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things"

Epictetus, Philosopher

"Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed"

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

"Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

"The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character"

George Santayana, Philosopher

"Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending"

Karl Marx, Philosopher

"There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being"

James Joyce, Novelist

"Our philosophy is that we care about people first"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"Words, without power, is mere philosophy"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

"A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images"

Jim Rohn, Businessman

"In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all"

Iris Murdoch, Author

"It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing with it"

Willard Van Orman Quine

"Our whole philosophy is one of transparency"

Valerie Jarrett, Lawyer

"History should be written as philosophy"

Voltaire, Writer

"A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

"Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God"

Victor Hugo, Author

"Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom"

Cicero, Philosopher

"A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion"

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

"A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

"Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

"Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder"

Plato, Philosopher

"Philosophy is the highest music"

Plato, Philosopher

"Philosophy begins in wonder"

Plato, Philosopher

"I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out"

Ronald Reagan, President

"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

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