(1206 quotes found)
“Philosophy is the highest music.”
Plato
“Philosophy always requires something more, requires the eternal, the true, in contrast to which even the fullest existence as such is but a happy moment.”
Soren Kierkegaard
“Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
“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.”
Socrates
“Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man”
David Hume
“There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.”
James Joyce
“No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism”
Annie Besant
“Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.”
Karl Marx
“Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.”
Jim Rohn
“No-one can compel me to be happy in accordance with his conception of the welfare of others, for each may seek his happiness in whatever way he sees fit, so long as he does not infringe upon the freedom of others to pursue a similar end which can be reconciled with the freedom of everyone else within a workable general law – i.e. he must accord to others the same right as he enjoys himself.”
Immanuel Kant