Philosophy Quotes
One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds
Frank Zappa
Philosophy is the stray camel of the faithful; take hold of it wherever ye come across it
Muhammad
The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle
Albert Einstein
The natural philosophers are mostly gone. We modern scientists are adding too many decimals
Martin H. Fischer
What is the first business of philosophy? To part with self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn what he thinks that he already knows
Epictetus
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
Bertrand Russell
Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong.
Richard Feynman
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy
William Shakespeare
The pursuit of what is true and the practice of what is good are the two most important objects of philosophy.
Voltaire
The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the insoluble problems in all their insolubility and then in simply contemplating them, fixedly and tirelessly, year after year, without any hope, patiently waiting.
Simone Weil
Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.
Henry Miller
There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophies
William Shakespeare
Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
Socrates
If He Tom Sawyer had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
Mark Twain
There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.
Marcus Tulius Cicero
