Phylosophy Quotes:

It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.

- George Santayana

source: The Unknowable (1923)

topic: Philosophy, Advantage, Phylosophy

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

- Francis Bacon

topic: Atheist, Philosophy, Men, Scientism, Phylosophy

The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.

- William Osler

topic: Birthday, Truth, Philosophy, Philosophy Of Science, Phylosophy

A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.

- Denis Diderot

source: "The Anchor Book of French Quotations with English Translations". Book by Norbert Gutermam, 1963.

topic: Religion, Gone, Firsts, Incredulity, Phylosophy

Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 3, sc. 3, l. 54

topic: Sweet, Philosophy, Adversity, Phylosophy

Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.

- Ludwig Wittgenstein

source: Ludwig Wittgenstein (2014). “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: German and English”, p.9, Routledge

topic: Philosophy, Reality, Theory, Phylosophy

Philosophy means liberation from the - routine, soaring above the well known, seeing it in new perspectives, arousing wonder and the wish to fly.

- Walter Kaufmann

topic: Philosophy, Mean, Perspective, Phylosophy, New Perspective

Philosophy is the thoughts of men about human thinking, reasoning and imagining, and the real values in human existence.

- Charles William Eliot

topic: Philosophy, Real, Men, Phylosophy, Real Value

My definition (of a philosopher) is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down.

- Louisa May Alcott

source: Louisa May Alcott (2015). “LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Ultimate Collection: 16 Novels & 150+ Short Stories, Plays and Poems (Illustrated): Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys, A Modern Mephistopheles, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, Lulu's Library, The Abbot's Ghost, A Garland for Girls…”, p.216, e-artnow

topic: Philosophy, Men, Family And Friends, Phylosophy, Haul

The philosophy which is so important in each of us is not a technical matter; it is our more or less dumb sense of what life honestly and deeply means. It is only partly got from books; it is our individual way of just seeing and feeling the total push and pressure of the cosmos.

- William James

topic: Philosophy, Book, Mean, Phylosophy

Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers.

- John Churton Collins

topic: Philosophy, Philosopher, Truth Is, Phylosophy