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Socrates4 quotes
Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder. — Socrates · 400 BCThe unexamined life is not worth living. — Socrates · 399 BCIf you were prepared to let me go on those terms, I should reply to you as follows: "I have the greatest fondness and affection for you, fellow Athenians, but I will obey my god rather than you." — Socrates · 399 BCWell, my art of midwifery is in most respects like theirs; but differs, in that I attend men and not women, and I look after their souls when they are in labor, and not after their bodies: and the triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings forth is a false idol or a noble and true birth. — Socrates · 369 BCLudwig Wittgenstein3 quotes
What 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 · 1953Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. — Ludwig Wittgenstein · 1953David Hume2 quotes
Opposing one species of superstition to another, set them a quarrelling; while we ourselves, during their fury and contention, happily make our escape, into the calm, tho' obscure, regions of philosophy. — David Hume · 1757Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous. — David Hume · 1739Adam Smith1 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 · 1790Albert Camus1 quote
There 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 · 1942Alfred North Whitehead1 quote
The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. — Alfred North Whitehead · 1928Bertrand Russell1 quote
The 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 · 1912Epictetus1 quote
Shall I show you the sinews of a philosopher? "What sinews are those?"-A will undisappointed; evils avoided; powers daily exercised; careful resolution; unerring decisions. — Epictetus · 108Francis Bacon1 quote
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. — Francis Bacon · 1625Francois de La Rochefoucauld1 quote
Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld · 1678Havelock Ellis1 quote
It is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way. — Havelock Ellis · 1923Henry David Thoreau1 quote
To 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 · 1854John Churton Collins1 quote
Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers. — John Churton Collins · 1900John Keats1 quote
Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings. — John Keats · 1820Karl Marx1 quote
Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love. — Karl Marx · 1883Oliver Edwards1 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 · 1778Oliver Goldsmith1 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 · 1761Richard Milward1 quote
Philosophy is nothing but discretion. — Richard Milward · 1689Samuel Taylor Coleridge1 quote
No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1817Tertullian1 quote
What indeed has Athens to do with Jerusalem? — Tertullian · 220Voltaire1 quote
Superstition sets the whole world in flames; philosophy quenches them. — Voltaire · 1764William Shakespeare1 quote
For there was never yet philosopher
That could endure the toothache patiently. — William Shakespeare · 1600