Philosophy - Philosophers Quotes

Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers.

The world is so wonderful, life is so queer, Let’s be excited as long as we’re here. Of my philosophy that is the sum. I think it’s pretty good; some think it’s dumb.

Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.

Leisure is the mother of philosophy.

History is philosophy teaching by example.

If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers.

Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.

But he (David Hume) was always careless about the offensive application of his principles; forgetting that if there be anything in a set of opinions calculated deeply and permanently to outrage the feelings of mankind, the probability at least is, that they have something about them unsound – that the mass of the public are […]

Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.

To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time.