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Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our mind by means of our language.
Ludwig Wittgenstein - Philosophical Investigations / 





To live without philosophizing is properly to have one's eyes closed and never attempt to open them.
René Descartes - Principles of Philosophy / 





Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search thereof when he is grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.
Epicurus - Letter to Menoeceus / 





Happiness is the goal of philosophy. Or to be more precise, the goal of philosophy is wisdom, and therefore happiness.
André Comte-Sponville / 





Poetry is related to philosophy as experience is related to empirical science.
Arthur Schopenhauer - The World as Will and Representation / 





Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims / 





There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark / 





Philosophy is the culture of the soul.
Marcus Tullius Cicero / 





Philosophize, to think your life and to live your thoughts: for that is what philosophy is.
André Comte-Sponville / 





Philosophy is properly Home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
Novalis / 





The courage of Truth, the belief in the power of the spirit, is the first condition of philosophical study.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel - Lectures on the History of Philosophy / 





The kind of philosophy one chooses thus depends on the kind of person one is.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte / 





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.
Galileo Galilei / 





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.
Soren Kierkegaard - Journals / 





Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity.
Ludwig Wittgenstein - Tractatus Logico-philosophicus / 





Philosophize is to learn how to die.
Michel de Montaigne - Essays / 





There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra / 





Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
Ludwig van Beethoven / 





To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
Blaise Pascal - Pensées / 





Happy, if we can unite the boundaries of the different species of philosophy, by reconciling profound enquiry with clearness, and truth with novelty!
David Hume - An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding / 





Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.
Henry David Thoreau - Journal / 





The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know.
Ludwig Wittgenstein / 





Philosophy is the microscope of thought.
Victor Hugo - Les Misérables / 





Leisure is the mother of philosophy.
Thomas Hobbes / 





Philosophy is good advice; and no one can give advice at the top of his lungs.
Seneca / 





A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
Francis Bacon / 





What is your aim in Philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.
Ludwig Wittgenstein - Philosophical Investigations / 





The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy.
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known as Molière - The Misanthrope / 





Let us hasten to make philosophy popular.
Denis Diderot - Pensées sur l'interprétation de la nature / 





Philosophy: Should always be snickered at.
Gustave Flaubert - Dictionary of Received Ideas / 





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