Philosophy Quotes - page 2

Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy? (Auguste Comte)
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection. View quote
Amartya Sen
It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment. View quote
Thomas Malthus
The first business of philosophy is to account for things as they are; and till our theories will do this, they ought not to be the ground of any practical conclusion. View quote
Thomas Malthus
Philosophy is the true mother of science. View quote
Cicero
The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction. View quote
Gabriel Marcel
Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy. View quote
Friedrich Schlegel
Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist. View quote
Friedrich Schlegel
Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show. (Timothy Leary)
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches. View quote
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art. View quote
Will Durant
I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy. View quote
Bertrand Russell
The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men. View quote
Bertrand Russell
I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it. View quote
Albert Camus
Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous. View quote
David Hume
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind. View quote
William Butler Yeats
We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has been renamed science, but science of today is in danger of losing much of the natural philosophy aspect. (Hannes Alfvén)
In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way. View quote
Havelock Ellis
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home. View quote
Novalis
For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics? View quote
Richard Courant
Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo problems. View quote
Rudolf Carnap