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Quotations by Subject: Philosophy
(Related Subjects: Religion, Knowledge, Wisdom, Belief, Morality)
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I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), The Philosophy of Logical Atomism
This is patently absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker.: Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000)
There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), De Divinatione
Who you are isn't tied solely to what you say, even though it may feel that way to you now.: Diane Ackerman, One Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke, A Marriage, and the Language of Healing, 2011
I went off to college planning to major in math or philosophy-- of course, both those ideas are really the same idea.: Frank Wilczek (1951 - )
Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.: Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 - 1951)
One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.: Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650), 'Le Discours de la Methode,' 1637
Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong.: Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)
All philosophies, if you ride them, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
Leisure is the mother of philosophy.: Thomas Hobbes (1588 - 1679)
True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.: Victor Cousin (1792 - 1867)
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.: William James (1842 - 1910)
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 5


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