| 64 Philosophy Quotes
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“He who runs behind truck is exhausted, he who runs in front of truck is tired.”
Heraclitus of Ephesus Quotes |
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“Dubito ergo cogito; cogito ergo sum.(I doubt, therefore I think; I think therefore I am)”
Rene Descartes Quotes |
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“I think; therefore I am.”
Rene Descartes Quotes |
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“One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes ... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.”
Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes |
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“When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy”
Voltaire Quotes |
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“Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old”
Epicurus Quotes |
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“The man of science is a poor philosopher.”
Albert Einstein Quotes |
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“Get the hell out of my way!”
Ayn Rand Quotes |
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“Philosophy is the science which considers truth”
Aristotle Quotes |
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“A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in
philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.”
Francis Bacon Quotes Source: Essays--Atheism
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“Sublime Philosophy!
Thou art the patriarch's ladder, reaching heaven;
And bright with beckoning angels--but alas!
We see thee like the patriarch, but in dreams,
By the first step,--dull slumbering on the earth.”
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton Quotes Source: Richelieu (act III, sc. 1, l. 4)
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“Beside, he was a shrewd philosopher,
And had read ev'ry text and gloss over
Whate'er the crabbed'st author hath,
He understood b' implicit faith.”
Samuel Butler (1) Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, l. 127)
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“Before philosophy can teach by Experience, the Philosophy has to
be in readiness, the Experience must be gathered and intelligibly
recorded.”
Thomas Carlyle Quotes Source: Essays--On History
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“O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and
expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been
without thee? Thou hast produced cities; thou hast called men
scattered about into the social enjoyment of life.
[Lat., O vitae philosophia dux! O virtutis indagatrix,
expultrixque vitiorum! Quid non modo nos, sed omnino vita
hominum sine et esse potuisset? Tu urbes peperisti; tu
dissipatos homines in societatum vitae convocasti.]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes Source: Tusc. Quoest. (bk. V, 2, 5)
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“The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.”
Denis Diderot Quotes Source: Last Conversation
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“The Beginning of Philosophy . . . is a Consciousness of your own
Weakness and inability in necessary things.”
Epictetus Quotes Source: Discourses (bk. II, ch. XI, st. 1)
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“Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every
assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.”
James Anthony Froude Quotes Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects--Calvinism
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“This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant
jade on a journey.”
Oliver Goldsmith Quotes Source: The Good-Natured Man (act I)
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“How charming is divine philosophy!
Not harsh, and crabbed, as full fools suppose,
But musical as is Apollo's lute,
And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets,
Where no crude surfeit reigns.”
John Milton Quotes Source: Mask of Comus (l. 476)
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“That stone, . . .
Philosophers in vain so long have sought.”
John Milton Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. III, l. 600)
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“To ridicule philosophy is truly philosophical.
[Fr., Se moquer de la philosophie c'est vraiment philosophe.]”
Blaise Pascal Quotes Source: Pensees (act VII, 35)
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“Philosophy is the replacement of category-habits by
category-disciplines.”
Gilbert Ryle Quotes Source: The Concept of Mind (introduction)
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“Philosophy is nothing but Discretion.”
John Selden Quotes Source: Table Talk--Philosophy
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“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at I, v)
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“I'll give thee armor to keep off that word;
Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy,
To comfort thee, though thou art banished.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Romeo and Juliet (Friar Laurence at III, iii)
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