Philosophy Quotes About Character & Perspective – Page 8 | GloryQuotes

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

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

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

Thomas Jefferson

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

Henry David Thoreau

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.

George Santayana

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

Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

John Adams

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.

Alfred North Whitehead

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.

Anton Chekhov

There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.

Edward Abbey

Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.

Emile M. Cioran

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

Albert Einstein

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

Douglas Adams

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.

Bertrand Russell

Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.

I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy.

Stephen Cole Kleene

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

Margaret Thatcher

Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.

Albert Pike

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?

Paul Gauguin

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

Napoleon Bonaparte

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

Will Durant

The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.

Lafcadio Hearn

Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols.

Morris Raphael Cohen

Why is it the philosopher who is expected to be easier and not some scientist who is even more inaccessible?

Jacques Derrida

That is why I believe that art is so much more significant than either economics or philosophy. It is the direct measure of man's spiritual vision.

Herbert Read

As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.

Karl Jaspers

Let philosophy resolutely aim to be as scientific as possible, but let her not forget her strong kinship with literature.

Morris Raphael Cohen

Ronald Reagan was a president of strength. His philosophy was a philosophy of strength - a strong military, a strong economy and strong families.

Mitt Romney

My philosophy is very simple. To feel young, you must work as long as you can.

Dino De Laurentiis

History should be written as philosophy.

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.

Philosophy is tested and characterised by the way in which it appropriates its history.

Karl Jaspers

One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.

John Burroughs

Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

The American Revolution was, in fact, a battle against the philosophy of Locke and the English utilitarians.

Robert Trout

Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.

George Henry Lewes

Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.

Imre Lakatos

Literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.

Morris Raphael Cohen

The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.

Walter Pater