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“Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.”
Source: Some Problems of Philosophy
“Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits. It works in the minutest crannies and it opens outthe widest vistas. It 'bakes no bread', as has been said, but it can inspire our souls with courage.”
Source: Pragmatism and the Conception of Thruth
“Philosophy is based on speculation, on logic, on thought, on the synthesis of what we know and on the analysis of what we do not know. Philosophy must include within its confines the whole content of science, religion and art.”
“Philosophy is by its nature something esoteric, neither made for the mob nor capable of being prepared for the mob.”
“Philosophy is by the timid for the timid.”
Source: House of All Nations
“Philosophy is common sense with big words.”
“Philosophy is easy... who on the fucking world has said that it's easy... it's not about logic... but and aboutnon logic... once enable logic... once and forever non logic is state disable.”
“Philosophy is empty if it isn't based on science. Science discovers, philosophy interprets.”
Source: Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man
“Philosophy is everybody's business.”
Source: How to Think About the Great Ideas: From the Great Books of Western Civilization
“Philosophy is experience transmitted into thought.”
“Philosophy is explicitness, generality, orientation and assessment. That which one would insinuate, thereof one must speak.”
Source: Words and Things: A Critical Account of Linguistic Philosophy and a Study in Ideology
“Philosophy is for the few.”
“Philosophy is fundamentally about how you come to terms with living your life and trying to do it in a wise manner, and, for me, that means decently and compassionately and courageously and so forth.”
“Philosophy is good advice, and no one gives good advice at the top of his lungs.”
“Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life; it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty.”
Source: The Mansions of Philosophy: A Survey of Human Life and Destiny
“Philosophy is, I think, a way to happiness by logical reasoning, to wipe out illogicality’s irrationalities.”
“Philosophy is in fact a quest for wisdom based in sophia; that quest for wisdom has everything to do with a love of wisdom.”
“Philosophy is just a kid brother to theology.”
Source: Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot
“Philosophy is life's dry-nurse, who can take care of us - but not suckle us.”
“Philosophy is like a compass. Science must follow the compass to reach a point for serving humanity.”
“Philosophy is like a normal personal organizer, but it's smaller than a matchbox.”
“Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.”
“Philosophy is like wine. There are good years and bad years but, in general, the older the better.”
Source: The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley
“Philosophy is linguistic’ may mean at least six different things.
(1) The study of language is a useful philosophical tool. (2) It is the only philosophical tool. (3) Language is the only subject matter of philosophy. (4) Necessary truths are established by linguistic convention. (5) Man is fundamentally a language using animal. (6) Everyday language has a status of privilege over technical and formal systems. These six propositions are
independent of each other. (1) has been accepted in practice by every philosopher since Plato. Concerning the other five, philosophers have been and are divided, including philosophers within the analytic tradition. In my own opinion (1) and (5) are true, and the other four false. But I do not argue for this sweeping generalization anywhere in the present book.”
Source: The Metaphysics of Mind
“Philosophy is man’s expression of curiosity about everything and his attempt to make sense of the world primarily through his intellect.”
Source: The Philosophies of Asia: The Edited Transcripts
“philosophy is no longer concerned with the quest for the truth of the world and so is reduced to a limited sphere, which only ensures the uninterrupted flow of capitalist markets. Truth as a philosophical category thus becomes enslaved to the unthinking markets of capitalism; philosophy at the service of the robber barons. Truth's instantiation is thus brutally reduced to the exercise of pure and arbitrary power in various domains of the world.”
“Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. ...Without philosophy thoughts are, as it were, cloudy and indistinct: its task is to make them clear and to give them sharp boundaries.”
Source: Tractatus Logico-philosophicus: The German Text of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Logisch-philosophische Abhandlung
“Philosophy is not a body of knowledge to impart to someone, that's why reading philosophy books isn't always the best way of learning philosophy. Philosophy is really more the process of rational engagement, rational reflection with a diversity of views and ideas and opinions and trying to sort of reason your way through to a more reflective position. I think if you look at it that way, philosophizing is to some extent some small way a part of almost everyone's lives although they don't recognize it as such and a lot of people are embarrassed about it.”
“Philosophy is not a spectator sport.”
Source: Philosophy: The Essential Study Guide
“Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.”
Source: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: German and English
“Philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.”
Source: You learn by living
“Philosophy is not in a state of external reflection on other domains, but in a state of active and internal alliance with them, and it is neither more abstract nor more difficult.”
Source: Cinema 1: The Movement Image
“Philosophy is not one truth, but thousands of truths. You don't have to believe in just one thing. When you chose one idea, you close yourself to the rest.”
“Philosophy is not politics, and we do our best, within our all-too-human limitations, to seek the truth, not to score points against opponents. There is little satisfaction in gaining an easy triumph over a weak opponent while ignoring better arguments against your views.”
“philosophy is not suited for the masses, what they need is holiness.”
“Philosophy is not to think deep, but simply speak life's basics that arise, aware and awaken people who are knowingly or unknowingly in the state of sleep.”
“Philosophy is nothing but discretion.”
Source: Seldeniana: with a biographical preface
“Philosophy is one reason which could lead to death.”
“Philosophy is overwhelmingly complicated, its procedure depressingly slow.”
“Philosophy is perfectly right in saying that life must be understood backward. But then one forgets the other clause - that it must be lived forward. The more one thinks through this clause, the more one concludes that life in temporality never becomes properly understandable, simply because never at any time does one get perfect repose to take the stance - backward.”
“Philosophy is problem-solving. There's a philosophical problem, and then you try to solve it by approaching it from different angles and seeing what way works. That's what comedy is: you have a topic and you try to just hit it as many different ways as you can.”
“Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.”
“Philosophy is really homesickness.”
Source: A Dish of Orts
“Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.”
“Philosophy is reason with the eyes of the soul.”
Source: Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside
“Philosophy is speculation, Zen is participation. Participate in the night leaving, participate in the evening coming, participate in the stars and participate in the clouds; make participation your lifestyle and the whole existence becomes such a joy, such an ecstasy. You could not have dreamed of a better universe.”
“Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of Sir Isaac Newton (Illustrated)
“Philosophy is talk on a cereal box.”
“Philosophy is tested and characterised by the way in which it appropriates its history.”
“Philosophy is that activity by which the meaning of propositions is established or discovered; it is a question of what the propositions actually mean. The content, soul, and spirit of science naturally consist in what is ultimately meant by its sentences; the philosophical activity of rendering significant is thus the alpha and omega of all scientific knowledge.
[Moritz Schlick interpreting Ludwig Wittgenstein's position]”