Philosophy - Philosophers Quotes

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.

My philosophy is that you are a tube for money. It just comes through you, and as long as you don’t panic, stay happy and grateful, appreciate what you have and know what you want to do, it’ll come.

Organic means, in a philosophic sense, entity. Where the whole is to the part and the part is to the whole. Where the nature of the materials, the nature of the purpose, the nature of the entire performance becomes a necessity and out of that comes what significance you can give the building as a […]

In the nature of man, we find three principall causes of quarrel. First, Competition; Secondly, Diffidence; Thirdly, Glory.

The source of every Crime, is some defect of the Understanding; or some errour in Reasoning, or some sudden force of the Passions. Defect in the Understanding, is Ignorance; in Reasoning, Erroneous Opinion.

The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.

Philosophy begins in wonder, and, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.

I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art.

A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.