It is easy to build a philosophy – it doesn’t have to run.
Philosophy - Philosophers Quotes
Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to enduring fact of mystery.
“But is all this true?” said Brutha. Didactylos shrugged. “Could be. Could be. We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends toward guesswork.”
The philosopher Rene Descartes is sitting in a bar. The bartender says, “It’s closing time. You want one for the road?” Descartes says, “I think not.” And with that – poof! – he disappears.
How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo’s lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar’d sweets Where no crude surfeit reigns.
What do they call a comedian who doesn’t get any laughs? A philosopher.
A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics, chemistry or animal behavior.
Philosophy is doubt.
Possibly, but my concern is that there not be more things in my philosophy than are in heaven and earth . (There are more things on heaven and earth, than are dreamed of in your philosophy. William Shakespeare)
A philosophy is characterized more by the formulation of its problems than by its solution of them.
