No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.
Philosophy - Philosophers Quotes
The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat.
It is in precisely in knowing its limits that philosophy consists.
Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all other philosophers are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.
Philosophy is the highest music.
Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy? There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: We know her woof, her texture; she is given In the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an angel’s wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, and gnomed […]
Philosophy first constructs a scheme of happiness and then tries to fit the world to it.
A man of business may talk of philosophy; a man who has none may practice it.
It is easy to build a philosophy – it doesn’t have to run.
Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to enduring fact of mystery.
