Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct. – Francis H. Bradley
It – Alexander Broadie
Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny. – Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then. – John Burroughs
Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates — but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore! The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron
The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand. – Elias Canetti
Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and Ill tell you their philosophy of life. – Dale Carnegie
To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe. – Louis-Ferdinand Celine
