The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.PhilanthropistsQuotations by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Those who give hoping to be rewarded with honor are not giving, they are bargaining.PhilanthropistsQuotations by Philo
Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.PhilanthropistsQuotations by Oscar Wilde
Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.PhilanthropistsQuotations by Virginia Woolf
Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.Philosophers and PhilosophyQuotations by Henry Brooks Adams
We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.Philosophers and PhilosophyQuotations by Francis Bacon
What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind.Philosophers and PhilosophyQuotations by George Berkeley
A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.Philosophers and PhilosophyQuotations by Ambrose Bierce
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.Philosophers and PhilosophyQuotations by Ambrose Bierce
Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.Philosophers and PhilosophyQuotations by Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.Philosophers and PhilosophyQuotations by John Burroughs
All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.Quotations by Samuel Butler
Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.Philosophers and PhilosophyQuotations by Albert Camus
Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.Philosophers and PhilosophyQuotations by Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.Philosophers and PhilosophyQuotations by Gilbert K. Chesterton
There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.Philosophers and PhilosophyQuotations by Marcus T. Cicero
Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.Philosophers and PhilosophyQuotations by Marcus T. Cicero
Philosophers are only men in armor after all.Philosophers and PhilosophyQuotations by Charles Dickens
Of what use is a philosopher who doesn’t hurt anybody’s feelings?Philosophers and PhilosophyQuotations by Diogenes of Sinope
Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.Philosophers and PhilosophyQuotations by Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers.Philosophers and PhilosophyQuotations by (Frederick II) Frederick The Great
Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.Philosophers and PhilosophyQuotations by James A. Froude
Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?Philosophers and PhilosophyQuotations by Paul Gauguin
The philosopher must station themselves in the middle.Philosophers and PhilosophyQuotations by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study.Philosophers and PhilosophyQuotations by Georg Hegel
Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.Philosophers and PhilosophyQuotations by Georg Hegel
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
Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.Philosophers and PhilosophyQuotations by William James
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
When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.Philosophers and PhilosophyQuotations by Walter Lippmann
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
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
There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.Philosophers and PhilosophyQuotations by Joseph De Maistre
There is no record in history of a happy philosopher.Philosophers and PhilosophyQuotations by H. L. Mencken
Philosophy is doubt.Philosophers and PhilosophyQuotations by Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!Philosophers and PhilosophyQuotations by 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
Plato was a bore.Philosophers and PhilosophyQuotations by Friedrich Nietzsche
Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.Philosophers and PhilosophyQuotations by Friedrich Nietzsche
To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.Philosophers and PhilosophyQuotations by Blaise Pascal
