Quotes about philosophy
2362 quotes about philosophy.

The poet is not a philosopher, but a clairvoyant.
classic quote by Juan Ramon Jimenez
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Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. A philosophical work consists essentially of elucidations. Philosophy does not result in "philosophical propositions", but rather in the clarification of propositions. Without philosophy thoughts are, as it were, cloudy and indistinct: its task is to make them clear and to give them sharp boundaries.
quote by Ludwig Wittgenstein
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When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.
quote by Walter Lippmann
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Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much.
quote by George Santayana
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We have to make philosophy itself an object of philosophical concern.
quote by Wilhelm Dilthey
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To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
quote by Blaise Pascal
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This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
quote by Dalai Lama
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Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers.
quote by John Churton Collins
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To some it is Napoleon, to some it is a philosophical struggle, to me it is allegro con brio.
classic quote by Arturo Toscanini
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There are now-a-days professors of philosophy but not philosophers.
quote by Henry David Thoreau
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Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.
quote by David Hume
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The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
quote by Wallace Stevens
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Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.
quote by Thomas Aquinas
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A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.'
quote by A.P. Martinich
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I am not a philosopher.
quote by Hans Bethe
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The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
quote by Denis Diderot
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Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.


There is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do, and that is, to contradict other philosophers.
quote by William James
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One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.
quote by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.
quote by Ludwig von Mises
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