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Philosophy cannot raise the commonalty up to her level: so, if she is to become popular, she must sink to theirs

Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare

I went off to college planning to major in math or philosophy-- of course, both those ideas are really the same idea.

Frank Wilczek

Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.

H. L. Mencken

True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is

Victor Cousin

Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life.

Dale Carnegie

Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.

Karl Marx

Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny

Edward G. Bulwer

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

Albert Camus

Philosophy is doubt.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.

Iris Murdoch

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

Iris Murdoch

Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Blaise Pascal

Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

Marcus Tulius Cicero

Philosophy is a bully that talks loud when the danger is at a distant; but, the moment she is pressed hard by an enemy, she is nowhere to be found and leaves the brunt of the battle to be fought by her steady, humble comrade, religion.

Charles Caleb Colton

Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.

William James

Do not all charms fly at the mere touch of cold philosophy? There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: we know her woof, her texture; she is given in the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an angel's wings, conquer all mysteries by rule and line, empty the haunted air, and gnome mine unweave a rainbow.

John Keats

If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was made for man.

Thomas B. Macaulay

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

Francis Bacon

To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere Philosophy.

Sir Thomas Browne

Philosophy should quicken life, not deaden it.

Susan Glaspell

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain

Epictetus

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