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  • Philosophy when superficially studied excites doubt when thoroughly explored it dispels it.

  • The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.

  • Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.

  • To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.

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

  • There are more things in heaven and earth Horatio Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

  • 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 according to its dictates a life of simplicity independence magnanimity and trust.

  • 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.

  • Philosophy: unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

  • Woody Allen said:

    When I was in school I cheated on my metaphysics exam: I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.

  • Aristotle said:

    Philosophy is the science which considers truth.

  • PHILOSOPHY n. A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

  • Will Durant said:

    Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life; it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.

  • I would not think that philosophy and reason themselves will be mans guide in the foreseeable future; however they will remain the most beautiful sanctuary they have always been for the select few.

  • In philosophy it is not the attainment of the goal that matters it is the things that are met with by the way.

  • To the poet to the philosopher to the saint all things are friendly and sacred all events profitable all days holy all men divine.

  • We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

  • John Keats said:

    There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: We know her woof her texture; she is given In the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an angels wings.

  • Dalai Lama said:

    This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

  • I have a simple philosophy. Fill whats empty. Empty whats full. And scratch where it itches.

  • John Milton said:

    How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed as dull fools suppose But musical as is Apollos lute And a perpetual feast of nectard sweets Where no crude surfeit reigns.

  • Until they become conscious they will never rebel and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.

  • Ayn Rand said:

    The men who are not interested in philosophy need it most urgently; they are most helplessly in its power.

  • Science is what you know philosophy is what you don?t know.

  • Unknown said:

    In the cathedral at Lubek Germany near the turn of the century was the following inscription: Ye call me master and obey me not; Ye call me light and seek me not; Ye call me way and walk me not; Ye call me wise and follow me not; Ye call me fair and love me not; Ye call me rich and ask me not; Ye call me eternal and seek me not; Ye call me gracious and trust me not; Ye call me noble and serve me not; Ye call me mighty and honor me not; Ye call me just and fear me not; If I condemn you blame me not.

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