Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.
Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.
Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
Philosophy is the highest music.
There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
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.
The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
