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- Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- 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
- There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion. — Charles Caleb Colton
- At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost. — Karl Jaspers
- As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity. — Karl Jaspers
- Philosophy is tested and characterised by the way in which it appropriates its history. — Karl Jaspers