To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.
Philosophy - Philosophers Quotes
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
Philosophy is just a hobby. You can’t open a philosophy factory.
It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writing than to put one principle into practice.
When people begin to philosophize they seem to think it necessary to make themselves artificially stupid.
Philosophy did not find Plato already a nobleman! it made him one.
Learn you lines and don’t trip over the furniture.
To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without, being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy in our age can do for those who study it.
To be philosophy’s slave is to be free.
I knew I should not find in any philosophy a single thought which had not passed through my own head, nor a single thought which had not passed through the heads of millions and millions of men before I was born.
