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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

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Charles Caleb Colton

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

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.

Short Philosophy Quotes

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

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.

"Freedom from fear" could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.

Dag Hammarskjold

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.

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

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

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The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.

William Godwin

To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.

Thomas B. Macaulay

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

William Butler Yeats

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

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

When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.

Muhammad Iqbal

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We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.

Barbara Jordan

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.

The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

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

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

Baruch Spinoza

The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.

I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.

Bertrand Russell

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!

I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.

Clarence Thomas

Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!

Iris Murdoch

The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.

George Santayana

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

Unfortunately, I'm not a person that's always capable of living up to the Boy Scout philosophy.

Stanley Crouch

A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

James Joyce

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.

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

Al Goldstein

Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.

Karl Jaspers

The violence had broken out in both sides, but our philosophy as a party was very, very clear.

John Hume

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

William Ralph Inge

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

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

Alfred North Whitehead

Even if we don't know it or aren't aware of it, politics and philosophy are really what make our up lives.

Roland Joffe

I had a philosophy, which may have been proven right, that directing isn't as hard as everyone says it is.

Matthew Vaughn

It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.

Alfred de Vigny

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

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

Richard M. Nixon

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.

Linus Torvalds

Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking.

Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.

Nicolas de Chamfort

It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.

Alain de Botton

In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met along the way.

Havelock Ellis

We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.

Anne Sullivan Macy

Philosophy likes to keen common sense on the run.

The highest point of philosophy is to be both wise and simple; this is the angelic life.

John Chrysostom

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

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

Henry Ward Beecher

It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment.

Thomas Malthus

I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law.

Wilfred Owen

The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.

Wallace Stevens

The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind.

Mortimer Adler

What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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