philosophy Quotes

“Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.”

― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

topic:truth philosophy

“Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.”

― Francis Bacon, The Essays of Francis Bacon

topic:wisdom science philosophy history poetry

“In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four. Inefficient nations were always conquered sooner or later, and the struggle for efficiency...”

― George Orwell, 1984

topic:philosophy

“Philosophy is the microscope of the thought.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

topic:thought philosophy

“Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

topic:man philosophy

“Philosophy should make clear and delimit sharply the thoughts which otherwise are, as it were, opaque and blurred.”

― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

topic:thought philosophy

“Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth; it is like the golden cloud in which the Messiah went up into heaven.”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

topic:truth science philosophy

“Philosophy cannot and should not give faith, but it should understand itself and know what it has to offer and take nothing away, and least of all should fool people out of something as if it were nothing.”

― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

topic:understanding philosophy faith

“The philosophy of reasoning, to be complete, ought to comprise the theory of bad as well as of good reasoning.”

― John Stuart Mill, A System Of Logic

topic:philosophy theory

“The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy, but they were listening in gibberish.”

― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

topic:understanding philosophy

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