Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old philosophy quotes, philosophy sayings, and philosophy proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.Lao Tzu
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.Socrates
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Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, "Is life a multiple choice test or is it a true or false test? ...Then a voice comes to me out of the dark and says, "We hate to tell you this but life is a thousand word essay."Charles Schulz
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Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong; as silly and as wise; as bad and as good. Let us therefore study the incidents of this, as philosophy to learn wisdom from, and none of them as wrongs to be revenged. Abraham Lincoln
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Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man. David Hume
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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy. Friedrich Nietzsche
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We have to make philosophy itself an object of philosophical concern. Wilhelm Dilthey
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Philosophy is the art of living. Plutarch
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Philosophy is reason with the eyes of the soul. Sims
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Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.James Froude
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Philosophy's work is finding the shortest path between two points. Kahlil Gibran
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Whence? Whither? Why? How? These questions cover all philosophy.Joseph Joubert
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Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers. John Collins
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The gold of the philosophers with which the wise are enriched is not that gold which is coined.Theophrastus Paracelsus
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The people who are not interested in philosophy need it most urgently; they are most helplessly in its power.Ayn Rand
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The chief intellectual characteristic of the present age is its despair of any constructive philosophy. John Dewey
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It is the bounty of nature that we live, but of philosophy, that we live well; which is, in truth, a greater benefit than life itself.Seneca
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To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one's self to die. Cicero
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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.Epictetus
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The maxim 'Think for yourself,' is basic; but the further maxim, 'Think socially,' must be added if philosophy is to do its whole duty. Edgar Brightman
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All the persecutors declare against each other mortal war, while the philosopher, oppressed by them all, contents himself with pitying them.Voltaire
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The discovery of what is true, and the practice of that which is good, are the two most important objects of philosophy.Voltaire
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When Aristotle was asked what he gained from philosophy, he answered, 'To do without being commanded what others do from fear of the laws.' Diogenes
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What is your aim in philosophy? - To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.Ludwig Wittgenstein
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What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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History is philosophy from examples.Dionysius of Halicarnassus
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New philosophy calls all in doubt.John Donne
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Do not all charms fly / At the mere touch of cold philosophy? John Keats
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It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.George Santayana
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Philosophy: unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.Henry Brooks Adams