To teach how to live with uncertainty, yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy can do. – Bertrand Russell
What is the first business of philosophy? To part with self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn what he thinks that he already knows. – Epictetus, Discourses
Philosophy is a state of fermentation, a process without final outcome. – Esa Saarinen
Philosophy is a mental concept of the universe. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)
Religion is a man using a divining rod. Philosophy is a man using a pick and shovel. – Author Unknown
I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam: I looked into the soul of another boy. – Woody Allen
The only difference between graffiti and philosophy is the word “fuck.” – Author unknown
Philosophy cannot raise the commonalty up to her level: so, if she is to become popular, she must sink to theirs. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers
Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it. – La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1678
Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently. – Anon.
Many talk like philosophers yet live like fools. – Proverb
Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. – Henry Adams
I was thrown out of N.Y.U. my freshman year for cheating on my metaphysics final. You know, I looked within the soul of the boy sitting next to me. – Woody Allen
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. – Thomas Aquinas
The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful. – Sir Alfred Jules Ayer
Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make. – Gaston Bachelard
Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light because they are so high. – Francis Bacon
We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do. – Francis Bacon
What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind. – George Berkeley
A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing. – Ambrose Bierce
