philosophy Quotes

“What’s a philosopher? . . . Someone who’s bright enough to find a job with no heavy lifting”

― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

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“The feelings of our heart, the agitation of our passions, the vehemence of our affections, dissipate all its conclusions, and reduce the profound philosopher to a mere plebeian.”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

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“The theologian considers sin chiefly as an offense against God; and the moral philosopher, as something contrary to reason.”

― Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

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“A philosopher is recognised by the fact that he shuns three brilliant and noisy things— fame, princes, and women: which is not to say that they do not come to him.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morality

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“His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing.”

― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

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“Although Oliver had been brought up by philosophers, he was not theoretically acquainted with the beautiful axiom that self-preservation is the first law of nature.”

― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

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“At the present time, Hitler is an outcome of Rousseau; Roosevelt and Churchill, of Locke.”

― Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy

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“All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense; but some are greater nonsense than others.”

― Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

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“Poetry, therefore, is a more philosophical and a higher thing than history: for poetry tends to express the universal, history the particular.”

― Aristotle, Poetics

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“philosophy . . . people are much to blame to represent it to children for a thing of so difficult access, and with such a frowning, grim, and formidable aspect. Who is it that has disguised it thus, with this false, pale, and ghostly countenance?...”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

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