In Philosophy, on thought’s peak my friend, Thou countedst years is so much coin to spend on it, and wouldst have thanked death that it used – Bland age, not dull disease to make an end.
Philosophy - Philosophers Quotes
George’s son had done his work so thoroughly that he was considered too good a workman to live, and was, in fact, taken and tragically shot at twelve o’clock that same day – another instance of the untoward fate which so often attends dogs and other philosophers who follow out a train of reasoning to […]
Philosophy, when superficially studied, excites doubt; when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life; it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty.
Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.
David Hume ate a swinging great dinner, And grew every day fatter and fatter; And yet the huge bulk of a sinner Said there was neither spirit or matter.
You are a philosopher, Dr. Johnson. I have tried too in my time to be a philosopher; but I don’t know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in.
No one should pay attention to a man delivering a lecture or a sermon on his “philosophy of life” until we know exactly how he treats his wife, his children, his neighbors, his friends, his subordinates and his enemies.
Oh, ye infidel philosophers, teach me how to find joy in sorrow, strength in weakness, and light in darkest days; how to bear buffeting and scorn; how to welcome death, and to pass through it into the sphere of life, and this not for me only, but for the whole world that groans and travails […]
When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don’t have in my mouth.
