Philosophy quotes
Bacon Francis 1561-1626
Essays ‘Of Atheism'
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
Bacon Francis 1561-1626
Essays ‘Of Studies'
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
Beecher Henry Ward 1813-1887
The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
Byron Lord 1788-1824
Don Juan
‘Twas stange that one so young should thus concern
His brain about the action of the sky;
If you think ‘twas philosophy that this did,
I can't help thinking puberty assisted.
Camus Albert 1913-1960
A novel is never anything but a philosophy put into images.
Dionysius of Halicarnassus 30-7BC
Ars Rhetorica
History is philosophy learned from examples.
Eagleton Professor Terry
Philosophy, Wittgenstein considered, could say something, but nothing that was really important.
Eliot George 1819-1880
Middlemarch
Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science.
Epictetus AD c.50-130
All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
Epictetus AD c.50-130
Here is the beginning of philosophy: a recognition of the conflicts between men, a search for their cause, a condemnation of mere opinion ... and the discovery
of a standard of judgement.
Feather William
The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men - the man he is and the man he wants to be.
Goldsmith Oliver 1730-1774
The Good-Natured Man
This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.
Haldane J.B.S. 1892-1964
Possible Worlds and Other Essays
Now, my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose ... I suspect that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of, or can be dreamed of, in any philosophy.
Inge William R. 1860-1954
Idea of Progress
To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
Keats John 1795-1821
‘Lamia'
Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings,
Conquer all mysteries by rule and line,
Empty the haunted air, the gnomed mine -
Unweave a rainbow.
Kettering Charles F. 1876-1958
It is easy to build a philosophy. It doesn't have to run.
Lonergan Bernard 1904-1985
In philosophy an individual is becoming himself.
Longworth Alice Roosevelt
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty.
Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
Montaigne Michel de 1533-1592
Philosophy is doubt.
Newton Sir Isaac 1642-1727
Letter to Edmond Halley
Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man has as good be engaged in law suits as have to do with her.
Pope Alexander 1688-1744
A man of business may talk of philosophy; a man who has none may practise it.
Russell Bertrand 1872-1970
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.
Russell Bertrand 1872-1970
To teach how to live with uncertainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy in our age can still do for those who study it.
Ryle Gilbert 1900-1976
The Concept of Mind
Philosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines.
Santayana George 1863-1952
The Unknowable
It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.
Schulz Charles M.
I've developed a new philosophy - I only dread one day at a time.
Shakespeare William 1564-1616
Hamlet
There are more things in heaven and earth,
Horation,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Shakespeare William 1564-1616
Romeo and Juliet
Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.
Sterne Laurence 1713-1768
Philosophy has a fine saying for everything - for
Death it has an entire set.
Swift Jonathan 1667-1745
‘Ode to Sir W. Temple'
Philosophy! the lumber of the schools.
Thompson Francis 1859-1907
‘Daisy'
Nothing begins, and nothing ends,
That is not paid with moan;
For we are born in other's pain,
And perish in our own.