Hamlet and Victor Frankenstein are each obsessed with death. Hamlet's whole story is a philosophical preparation for death; Victor's is an intellectu….

Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop..

I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own..

It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories..

Metaphysics is the clearing house for all fundamental philosophical problems..

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect..

If there is such a thing as philosophical progress, then why - unlike scientific progress - is it so invisible? Philosophical progress is invisible b….

It's not just that there is a cooperative spirit of investigation there, where we all recognise that we are engaged in a common project of inquiry. I….

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half..

We should listen to both philosophers and scientists, because the philosophical contribution is different from the scientific contribution, and both ….

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it..

What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me..

Linguistic philosophers continue to argue that probably music is not a language, that is in the philosophical debate. Another point of view is to say….

for we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry would have been of no use.

Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts..

Variant: When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable..

Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humani….

They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases..

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men..

Science is nothing but perception..

I have many times been praised for my lack of animosity towards the Germans. It's not a philosophical virtue. It's a habit of having my second reacti….