Philosophy Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
64 Philosophy Quotes
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Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.
Noel Coward
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Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?
Seneca
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Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently.
Anonymous
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Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.
James A. Froude
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No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide. - Spinster.
Sylvia Ashton-warner
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You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
Naguib Mahfouz
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When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery? When will men who would never for a moment encourage their own sons to enter the work of the public schools cease to tell us that education is the greatest and noblest of all human callings? - Craftmanship in Teaching.
William C. Bagley
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.
Socrates
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