philosophy Quotes

“Unless philosophy can make a Juliet, displant a town, reverse a prince's doom, it helps not, it prevails not.”

― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

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“True, there never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

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“It was necessary for man's salvation that there should be a knowledge revealed by God besides philosophical science built up by human reason.”

― Charles Dickens,

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“the true votaries of philosophy abstain from all fleshly lusts, and hold out against them and refuse to give themselves up to them”

― Plato, Phaedo

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“If philosophy among other vagaries were also to have the notion that it could occur to a man to act in accordance with its teaching, one might make out of that a queer comedy.”

― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

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“A commodity appears, at first sight, a very trivial thing, and easily understood. Its analysis shows that it is, in reality, a very queer thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.”

― Karl Marx, Das Kapital

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“Top-heavy was the ship as a dinnerless student with all Aristotle in his head.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

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“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

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“Indeed without death men would scarcely philosophise.”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation

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“My sister went wrong . . . She took up philosophy.”

― Boris Vian, Froth on the Daydream

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