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There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands

Plato

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate -- that's my philosophy

Thornton Wilder

Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned

Unknown

Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex

Karl Marx

To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize

Blaise Pascal

I'm a philosophy major. That means I can think deep thoughts about being unemployed

Bruce Lee

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes ... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility

Eleanor Roosevelt

When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy

Voltaire

Philosophy is the science which considers truth

Aristotle

I would not think that philosophy and reason themselves will be man's guide in the foreseeable future; however, they will remain the most beautiful sanctuary they have always been for the select few

Albert Einstein

Just as philosophy is the study of other people's misconceptions, so history is the study of other people's mistakes

Phillip Guedala

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

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

Havelock Ellis

Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently

Unknown

Philosophy is the highest music

Plato

Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them

Plato

Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end

Michel de Montaigne

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

Alfred North Whitehead

Philosophy is the stray camel of the faithful; take hold of it wherever ye come across it

Muhammad

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy

Martin L. Gross

Leisure is the mother of Philosophy

Thomas Hobbes

Philosophy is just a hobby. You can't open a philosophy factory

Dewey Selmon

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

Alfred North Whitehead

Philosophy is a state of fermentation, a process without final outcome

Esa Saarinen

Religion is a man using a divining rod. Philosophy is a man using a pick and shovel

Unknown

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