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.
Philosophy - Philosophers Quotes
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.
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.
