Quotes on PHILOSOPHY


Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
Socrates (c.470-399 BC)
Phaedo, section 62
by Plato (c.428-348 BC)




The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC)
Tusculanae Disputationes




Nihil tam absurde dici potest, quod non dicatur ab aliquo pilosophorum. (There is nothing so ridiculous but some philosopher has said it.)
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC)
De Divinatione
Book II, Section 58




See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ.
Bible, Colossians 2:8 (NIV)



All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
Epictetus (c.55-c.135)





A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
Essays: Of Atheism, 1625





A book is a mirror. When a monkey looks in, no philosopher looks out.
G.C. Lichtenberg (1742-1799)
"Notebook E", Aphorism 49
Aphorisms, 1765-1799




I must invent my own philosophical systems, or else be enslaved by other mens'.
William Blake (1757-1827)
Jerusalem, 1820
Plate 10




What is philosophy but a continual battle against custom?
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)





The philosophy of waiting is sustained by all the oracles of the universe.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)






Philosophy: unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918)
The So-Called Human Race, 1922
by Bert Leston Taylor (1866-1921)




Philosophy has the task and the opportunity of helping banish the concept that human destiny here and now is of slight importance in comparison with some supernatural destiny.
John Dewey (1859-1953)




The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other people's.
W.R. Inge (1860-1954)
Outspoken Essays, 1922




This is patently absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)





To teach men how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing philosophy can still do.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1967)




The philosopher's treatment of a question is like the treatment of an illness.
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)

"One Thing i know for sure; that i know nothing"
Socrates

Ah,A Socrates Lover?

World would be such a better place if we had more fleas around...And yes,id love a nice cup of warm hemlock!

Now i cant remember who said that but it goes like this : "A good king owes to be a good philosopher!"