Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our mind by means of our language.
To live without philosophizing is properly to have one's eyes closed and never attempt to open them.
Poetry is related to philosophy as experience is related to empirical science.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Philosophy is the culture of the soul.
Philosophy is properly Home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
The courage of Truth, the belief in the power of the spirit, is the first condition of philosophical study.
The kind of philosophy one chooses thus depends on the kind of person one is.
Philosophy is written in this grand book, which stands continually open before our eyes (I say the Universe), but can not be understood without first learning to comprehend the language and know the characters as it is written. It is written in mathematical language, and its characters are triangles, circles and other geometric figures, without which it is impossible to humanly understand a word; without these one is wandering in a dark labyrinth.
Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.
It is perfectly true, as the philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.
Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity.
Philosophize is to learn how to die.
There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
Happy, if we can unite the boundaries of the different species of philosophy, by reconciling profound enquiry with clearness, and truth with novelty!
Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.
Philosophize, to think your life and to live your thoughts: for that is what philosophy is.
The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know.
Philosophy is the microscope of thought.
Leisure is the mother of philosophy.
Philosophy is good advice; and no one can give advice at the top of his lungs.
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
What is your aim in Philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.
The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy.
Let us hasten to make philosophy popular.
The history of philosophical system is the picture gallery of reason.
Every great philosophy... as a whole says always only: this is the image of all life, and from this learn the meaning of your life.
When you are philosophising you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.