I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
Champions invariably have fervent philosophical beliefs. Philosophy, in its simplest terms, means 'the love of wisdom.'
We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.
I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms.
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you I the best place for the next moment.
Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.
To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.
Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one's gaze.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
