“In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was made for man.”
“All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.”
“Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.”
“Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?”
“What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing about the origin and destiny of cats?”
“Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life.”
“The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.”
“The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.”
“The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful.”
“There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.”
“To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.”
“I have tried too in my time to be a philosopher; but, I don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in.”
“The pursuit of what is true and the practice of what is good are the two most important objects of philosophy.”
“Then, like an old-time orator impressively he rose; I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.”
“If he really thinks there is no distinction between vice and virtue, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.”
“The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be n hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.”
“Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.”
“The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.”
“When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy.”
“The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.”
“Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.”
“Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them.”
“The ultimate triumph of philosophy would be to cast light upon the mysterious ways in which Providence moves to achieve the designs it has for man.”
“In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.”
“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.”
“The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand.”
“Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory -- the world? Then we pygmies must be content to have out paper allegories but ill comprehended.”
“Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.”
“Reason, progress, unselfishness, a wide historical perspective, expansiveness, generosity, enlightened self-interest. I had heard it all my life, and it filled me with despair.”
“Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.”