You might claim – as most people do – that you have never been influenced by philosophy. I will ask you to check that claim. Have you ever thought or said the following? “Don’t be so sure – nobody can be certain of anything.” You got that notion from David Hume (and many, many others), […]
Philosophy - Philosophers Quotes
Democritus was neither the first nor the last thinker to be lost in the flow of the mind. Philosophers have frequently been regarded as being “absentminded,” which of course means not that their minds were lost, but that they had temporarily tuned out of everyday reality to dwell among the symbolic forms of their favorite […]
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.
I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
You must lie upon the daisies and discourse In novel phrases of your complicated state of mind The meaning doesn’t matter If it’s only idle chatter of a transcendental kind, And everyone will say, As you walk your mystic way, “If this young man expresses himself In terms too deep for me Why, what a […]
Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.
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.
There is nothing so strange or so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.
Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why.
