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Tag Name "Philosophy" (1891)

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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.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
Ambrose Bierce
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Philosophy had supplied Socrates with convictions in which he had been able to have rational, as opposed to hysterical, confidence when faced with disapproval.
Alain de Botton
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Philosophy is a slow process of logic and logical discourse: A bringing B bringing C and so forth. In mysticism you can jump from A to Z. But the ultimate objective is the same. It's knowledge. It's truth.
Elie Wiesel
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
James Madison
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Philosophy is talk on a cereal box.
Edie Brickell
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Philosophy is about getting the facts right, but it is also about thinking rightly about them. Philosophy is more about the latter than the former.
Allen W. Wood
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Philosophy is man’s expression of curiosity about everything and his attempt to make sense of the world primarily through his intellect.
Alan Watts
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Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety refuge among anemic ideas.
Emile M. Cioran
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Philosophy is a corrective against sadness. Yet there still are people who believe in the profundity of philosophy!
Emile M. Cioran
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Philosophy is the product of wonder.
Alfred North Whitehead
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Philosophy asks the simple question: What is it all about?
Alfred North Whitehead
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Philosophy alone can boast (and perhaps it is no more than the boast of philosophy), that her gentle hand is able to eradicate from the human mind the latent and deadly principle of fanaticism.
Edward Gibbon
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Philosophy: a purple bullfinch in a lilac tree.
T. S. Eliot
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Philosophy addresses, in a systematic and progress-making way, questions of deep concern to everyone.
Rebecca Goldstein
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Philosophy does not exist. It is nothing but an hypostatized abstraction.
R. D. Laing
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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.
Gilles Deleuze
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Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.
George Henry Lewes
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Philosophy is really homesickness.
George MacDonald
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Philosophy ... must not bargain away anything of the emphatic concept of truth.
Theodor Adorno
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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.
William James
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Philosophy insists that there is a joy which is absolute, which never changes.
Swami Vivekananda
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Philosophy is an odd thing... There is no particular Socratic or Dimechian or Kantian way to live your life. They don't offer ethical codes and standards by which to live your life.
Stephen Fry
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Philosophy is the thoughts of men about human thinking, reasoning and imagining, and the real values in human existence.
Charles William Eliot
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