Philosophy Quotes

"The chief benefit, which results from philosophy, arises in an indirect manner, and proceeds more from its secret, insensible influence, than from its immediate application"

David Hume, Philosopher

"Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man"

David Hume, Philosopher

"Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous"

David Hume, Philosopher

"To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy"

William Ralph Inge, Clergyman

"It's really easy to have a nice philosophy about openness, but moving the world in that direction is a different thing. It requires both understanding where you want to go and being pragmatic about getting there"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it"

John Donne, Poet

"Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains"

Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician

"Philosophy is the product of wonder"

Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician

"There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness"

Dalai Lama, Leader

"Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning"

Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician

"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 Lama, Leader

"But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation be sought, not in arbitrary allegorical categories, but in the actual facts of ritual or religious custom to which the myth attaches"

William Robertson Smith, Scientist

"They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch"

Marquis de Sade, Novelist

"The ultimate triumph of philosophy would be to cast light upon the mysterious ways in which Providence moves to achieve the designs it has for man"

Marquis de Sade, Novelist

"Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home"

Novalis, Poet

"Indeed heresies are themselves instigated by philosophy"

Tertullian, Author

"My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

"Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things"

Marcel Proust, Author

"The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question"

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher

"Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy"

Thomas Hobbes, Philosopher

"I play basketball on Sundays and I'm a very spiritual guy; I read a lot of Eastern philosophy and I meditate"

Garry Shandling, Comedian

"I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion"

Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher

"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. Gardner, Educator

"Astonishment is the root of philosophy"

Paul Tillich, Theologian

"Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant"

Edgar Allan Poe, Poet

"Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal"

Al Goldstein, Publisher

"In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way"

Henry Ellis, Psychologist

"'UFO's' attitude toward the subject is very similar to mine. It's not an advocacy; its philosophy is more 'I want to believe this, but I want it proved.'"

Dwight Schultz, Actor

"Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership"

Jerzy Kosinski, Novelist

"I have no philosophy, my favourite thing is sitting in the studio"

Arne Jacobsen, Architect

"Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy"

Martin Heidegger, Philosopher

"The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions"

George Henry Lewes, Philosopher

"I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it"

Larry Wall, Author

"I would not say that I was, these days, a 'student' of philosophy, although in my youth I was quite deeply involved with certain aspects of the British pragmatists"

Brian Ferneyhough, Composer

"In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach"

Dean Inge, Philosopher

"The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other people's"

Dean Inge, Philosopher

"I don't have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong"

Charles Kuralt, Journalist

"My pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball way from the bat"

Satchel Paige, Athlete

"Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery"

Henry Miller, Writer

"Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination"

George Henry Lewes, Philosopher

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