Philosophy is the highest music.
Philosophy - Philosophers Quotes
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.
“But is all this true?” said Brutha. Didactylos shrugged. “Could be. Could be. We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends toward guesswork.”
The philosopher Rene Descartes is sitting in a bar. The bartender says, “It’s closing time. You want one for the road?” Descartes says, “I think not.” And with that – poof! – he disappears.
How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo’s lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar’d sweets Where no crude surfeit reigns.
What do they call a comedian who doesn’t get any laughs? A philosopher.
