November 2008 – Page 284 – Dictionary of Quotes

Philosophy may be dodged, eloquence cannot. Edgar Quinet

Philosophy may be dodged, eloquence cannot.Philosophers and PhilosophyQuotations by Edgar Quinet

Many talk like philosophers yet live like fools. Proverb

Many talk like philosophers yet live like fools.Philosophers and PhilosophyQuotations by Proverb

Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there? Harold Pinter

Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?Philosophers and PhilosophyQuotations by Harold Pinter

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher. Blaise Pascal

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.Philosophers and PhilosophyQuotations by Blaise Pascal

Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life. Friedrich Nietzsche

Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.Philosophers and PhilosophyQuotations by Friedrich Nietzsche

Plato was a bore. Friedrich Nietzsche

Plato was a bore.Philosophers and PhilosophyQuotations by Friedrich Nietzsche

In philosophy if you aren’t moving at a snail’s pace you aren’t moving at all. Iris Murdoch

In philosophy if you aren’t moving at a snail’s pace you aren’t moving at all.Philosophers and PhilosophyQuotations by Iris Murdoch

Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating! Iris Murdoch

Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!Philosophers and PhilosophyQuotations by Iris Murdoch

Philosophy is doubt. Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

Philosophy is doubt.Philosophers and PhilosophyQuotations by Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

There is no record in history of a happy philosopher. H. L. Mencken

There is no record in history of a happy philosopher.Philosophers and PhilosophyQuotations by H. L. Mencken

There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections. Joseph De Maistre

There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.Philosophers and PhilosophyQuotations by Joseph De Maistre

In Plato’s opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon’s opinion, philosophy was made for man. Thomas B. Macaulay

In Plato’s opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon’s opinion, philosophy was made for man.Philosophers and PhilosophyQuotations by Thomas B. Macaulay

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what’s empty. Empty what’s full and scratch where it itches. Alice Roosevelt Longworth

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what’s empty. Empty what’s full and scratch where it itches.Philosophers and PhilosophyQuotations by Alice Roosevelt Longworth

When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers. Walter Lippmann

When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.Philosophers and PhilosophyQuotations by Walter Lippmann

If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind. Georg C. Lichtenberg

If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.Philosophers and PhilosophyQuotations by Georg C. Lichtenberg

Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits. William James

Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.Philosophers and PhilosophyQuotations by William James

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else’s type of thinking. William James

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else’s type of thinking.Philosophers and PhilosophyQuotations by William James

Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond. Georg Hegel

Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.Philosophers and PhilosophyQuotations by Georg Hegel

The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study. Georg Hegel

The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study.Philosophers and PhilosophyQuotations by Georg Hegel

The philosopher must station themselves in the middle. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The philosopher must station themselves in the middle.Philosophers and PhilosophyQuotations by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty? Paul Gauguin

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?Philosophers and PhilosophyQuotations by Paul Gauguin

Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve. James A. Froude

Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.Philosophers and PhilosophyQuotations by James A. Froude

If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers. (Frederick II) Frederick The Great

If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers.Philosophers and PhilosophyQuotations by (Frederick II) Frederick The Great

Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.Philosophers and PhilosophyQuotations by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Of what use is a philosopher who doesn’t hurt anybody’s feelings? Diogenes of Sinope

Of what use is a philosopher who doesn’t hurt anybody’s feelings?Philosophers and PhilosophyQuotations by Diogenes of Sinope

Philosophers are only men in armor after all. Charles Dickens

Philosophers are only men in armor after all.Philosophers and PhilosophyQuotations by Charles Dickens

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom. Marcus T. Cicero

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.Philosophers and PhilosophyQuotations by Marcus T. Cicero

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it. Marcus T. Cicero

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.Philosophers and PhilosophyQuotations by Marcus T. Cicero

A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice. Gilbert K. Chesterton

A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.Philosophers and PhilosophyQuotations by Gilbert K. Chesterton

Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures. Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort

Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.Philosophers and PhilosophyQuotations by Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort

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