Children are the only bold philosophers.
Philosophy - Philosophers Quotes
Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. (Hamlet)
The most tragic problem of philosophy is to reconcile intellectual necessities with the necessities of the heart and will. For it is on this rock that every philosophy that pretends to receive the eternal and tragic contradictions, the basis of our existence, breaks to pieces.
Don’t let me catch anyone talking about the universe in my department.
For there was never yet a philosopher – that could endure the toothache patiently. (Much Ado About Nothing)
Philosophy and religion are enemies, and because they are enemies they have need of one another. There is no religion without some philosophical basis, no philosophy without roots in religion. Each lives by its contrary.
Philosophy is a state of fermentation, a process without final outcome.
Napoleon was a contemporary of Kant, Goethe, Mozart, and Beethoven. Compare their tombs, and you will get an aesthetic measure of how much more we admire a great soldier than a great philosopher, poet, or composer.
