Philosophy is doubt.
Philosophy - Philosophers Quotes
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.
Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.
He (Bertrand Russell) served as a listening-post for his age in which a vast range of movements of thought were perceptively picked up, helpfully simplified, and then sent forth to the world in a lucid and readily digestible form.
Philosophy triumphs easily over past and over future evils, but present evils triumph over philosophy.
It appears to me that in Ethics, as in all other philosophical studies, the difficulties and disagreements, of which history is full, are mainly due to a very simple cause: namely to the attempt to answer questions, without first discovering precisely what question it is which you desire to answer.
You might claim – as most people do – that you have never been influenced by philosophy. I will ask you to check that claim. Have you ever thought or said the following? “Don’t be so sure – nobody can be certain of anything.” You got that notion from David Hume (and many, many others), […]
It not seldom happens that in the purposeless rovings and wanderings of the imagination we hunt down such game as can be put to use by our purposeful philosophy in its well-ordered household.
Philosophy is the stray camel of the faithful; take hold of it wherever ye come across it.
