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Philosophical literature11 quotes
Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder. — Socrates · 400 BCThe unexamined life is not worth living. — Socrates · 399 BCThere is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. — Albert Camus · 1942What is your aim in philosophy?-To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle. — Ludwig Wittgenstein · 1953Philosophy may in no way interfere with the actual use of language; it can in the end only describe it... It leaves everything as it is. — Ludwig Wittgenstein · 1953The man who has no tincture of philosophy goes through life imprisoned in the prejudices derived from common sense, from the habitual beliefs of his age or his nation, and from convictions which have grown up in his mind without the co-operation or consent of his deliberate reason. — Bertrand Russell · 1912All 11 quotes →Autobiography and memoir3 quotes
It is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way. — Havelock Ellis · 1923To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, not even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live accordingly to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. — Henry David Thoreau · 1854No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1817Biography1 quote
I have tried too in my time to be a philosopher; but, I don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in. — Oliver Edwards · 1778Comedy (play)1 quote
For there was never yet philosopher
That could endure the toothache patiently. — William Shakespeare · 1600Historical literature1 quote
Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love. — Karl Marx · 1883Religious literature1 quote
What indeed has Athens to do with Jerusalem? — Tertullian · 220Satire1 quote
A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to county, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is only a vagabond. — Oliver Goldsmith · 1761Scientific literature1 quote
Wonder... And not any expectation of advantage from its discoveries, is the first principle which prompts mankind to the study of Philosophy, of that science which pretends to lay open the concealed connections that unite the various appearances of nature. — Adam Smith · 1790