Philosophy Quotes

What I have gained from philosophy is the ability to feel at ease in any society. (Aristippus, 425-366 b.c.)

The philosopher is he to whom the highest has descended, and the lowest has mounted up; who is the equal and kindly brother of all. (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881)

Philosophy as a fellow once said to me is only thinking. Thinking is an instrument of adjustment to the conditions of life – but it becomes an end in itself. (Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1841-1935)

There is no record in human history of a happy philosopher. (H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956)

Philosophy is toleration, and it is only one step from toleration to forgiveness. (Arthur W. Pinero, 1855-1934)

I think that bad philosophers may have a certain influence, good philosophers, never. (Bertrand Russell, 1872-1970)

The point of philosophy is to start with something as to seem not worth starting, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it. (Bertrand Russell, 1872-1970)

The grater the philosopher, the harder it is for him to answer the questions of common people. (Henryk Sienkiewicz, 1846-1916)

Philosophers must deal with ideas, but the trouble with most nineteenth century poets is too much pilosophy; they are nearer to being philosophers than poets, without being in the true sense either. (Allen Tate, 1899-1979)

Philosophy is an attitude towards life, based on a greater or lesser, but always limited comprehension of the universe as far as we happen to know it. (Lin Yutang, 1895-1976)

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