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“Philosophy is that part of science which at present people chose to have opinions about, but which they have no knowledge about. Therefore every advance in knowledge robs philosophy of some problems which formerly it had ...and will belong to science.”
Source: The Philosophy of Logical Atomism
“Philosophy is the art and law of life, and it teaches us what to do in all cases, and, like good marksmen, to hit the white at any distance.”
“Philosophy is the art of dying.Philosophy is an activity that has always been concerned with how one seizes hold of one's mortality, and I see myself continuing a very ancient tradition that goes back to Socrates and Epicurus, which is that to be a philosopher is to try and learn how to die. In learning how to die, one learns how to live.”
“Philosophy is the art of living.”
“Philosophy is the beauty, beauty is from God.”
“Philosophy is the childhood of the intellect, and a culture that tries to skip it will never grow up.”
Source: The View From Nowhere
“Philosophy is the critically reflective, systematically articulated attempt to illumine our human experience in depth and set it in a vision of the whole.”
Source: The One and the Many: A Contemporary Thomistic Metaphysics
“Philosophy is the education of grown-ups.”
“Philosophy is the health of the mind.”
“Philosophy is the highest music.”
Source: Apology Of Socrates And Crito
“Philosophy is the history of philosophy.”
“Philosophy is the love of wisdom: Christianity is the wisdom of love.”
“Philosophy is the microscope of thought.”
Source: The Essential Victor Hugo
“Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it.”
Source: Les Misérables
“Philosophy is the only excuse God has for his cruelty and vanity.”
“Philosophy is the opposite of fairy tales”
“Philosophy is the product of wonder.”
Source: Nature and Life
“Philosophy is the product of wonder. The effort after the general characterization of the world around us is the romance of human thought.”
Source: Nature and Life
“Philosophy is the rational expression of genius.”
“Philosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines.”
“Philosophy is the science of estimating values. The superiority of any state or substance over another is determined by philosophy. By assigning a position of primary importance to what remains when all that is secondary has been removed, philosophy thus becomes the true index of priority or emphasis in the realm of speculative thought.”
“Philosophy is the science which considers truth.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study
“Philosophy is the self-correction by consciousness of its own initial excess of subjectivity.”
Source: Process and Reality
“Philosophy is the sum total of all that you know and what you decide is valuable.”
“Philosophy is the thoughts of men about human thinking, reasoning and imagining, and the real values in human existence.”
“Philosophy is the toil which can never tire persons engaged in it. All ways are strewn with roses, and the farther you go, the more enchanting objects appear before you and invite you on.”
“Philosophy is the true home of irony, which might be defined as logical beauty: for wherever men are philosophizing in spoken or written dialogues, and provided they are not entirely systematic, irony ought to be produced and postulated; even the Stoics regarded urbanity as a virtue.”
“Philosophy is the true mother of science.”
“Philosophy is this amazing technique we've devised for getting reality to answer us back when we're getting it wrong. Science itself can't make those arguments. You actually have to rely on philosophy, on philosophy of science.”
“Philosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any definite answers to its questions, since no definite answers can, as a rule, be known to be true, but rather for the sake of the questions themselves; because these questions enlarge our conception of what is possible, enrich our intellectual imagination and diminish the dogmatic assurance which closes the mind against speculation; but above all because, through the greatness of the universe which philosophy contemplates, the mind is also rendered great, and becomes capable of that union with the universe which constitutes its highest good.”
Source: The Problems of Philosophy
“Philosophy is to science as masturbation is to sex.”
“Philosophy is transcendental homelessness; it is the urge to be at home everywhere”
“Philosophy is true mother of the arts [of science].”
“Philosophy is unbelievably inspiring to me.”
“Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes — I mean the universe — but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols, in which it is written.”
“Philosophy is written in this all-encompassing book that is constantly open to our eyes, that is the universe; but it cannot be understood unless one first learns to understand the language and knows the characters in which it is written. It is written in mathematical language, and its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometrical figures; without these it is humanly impossible to understand a word of it, and one wanders in a dark labyrinth.”
Source: Il Saggiatore
“Philosophy is, in the last instance, class struggle in the field of theory.”
Source: Essays in self-criticism
“Philosophy isn’t just about learning—it’s equally about unlearning. It is rekindling the raw, playful curiosity from before the world trained us to see things one way.”
Source: Mind-Bending Riddles Inspired by Philosophy | With Answers and Explanations | Philosophical Riddles | Philosophy in Rhymes : From Plato, Socrates, Lao Tzu, the Stoics, Epicurus, Buddhism, Rumi
“Philosophy isn't programmed into us, and a lot of the forces of our culture steadfastly work against it. Philosophy, for me, is a way of resisting the nihilism of the present by making, creating, affirming. By going on.”
Source: Impossible Objects
“Philosophy isn't reading Emmanuel Kant. Philosophy is about thinking hard about what the right thing to do is in a situation and approaching that kind of question in an open-minded and open-hearted way, receptive to a broad range of considerations and interests of other people and other things.”
“Philosophy itself cannot but benefit from our disputes, for if our conceptions prove true, new achievements will be made; if false, their refutation will further confirm the original doctrines.”
“Philosophy just puts everything before us, and neither explains nor deduces anything.-Since everything lies open to view there is nothing to explain”
Source: Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951
“Philosophy leads to death, sociology leads to suicide.”
“Philosophy, like all other studies, aims primarily at knowledge. The knowledge it aims at is the kind of knowledge which gives unity and system to the body of the sciences, and the kind which results from a critical examination of the grounds of our convictions, prejudices, and beliefs.”
Source: The Problems of Philosophy
“Philosophy likes to keen common sense on the run.”
“Philosophy limits the thinkable and therefore the unthinkable.”
“Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.”
Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature
“Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation. There is in the living act of perception always something that glimmers and twinkles and will not be caught, and for which reflection comes too late.”
Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature
“Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative.”
Source: Truth and Progress: Philosophical Papers
“Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question...awareness of the problem outlives all solutions. The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.”