Quotes on Philosophy

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.

History should be written as philosophy.

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is Metaphysics.

There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.

The Linux philosophy is "laugh in the face of danger". Oops. Wrong one. "Do it yourself". That's it.

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

The whole philosophy of modern times is to dissolve distinctions between individuals and deal with them as large collections of people. It's essentially self-interested on the part of authority.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

In other words, the propositions of philosophy are not factual, but linguistic in character - that is, they do not describe the behaviour of physical, or even mental, objects; they express definitions, or the formal consequences of definitions. Accordingly we may say that philosophy is a department of logic. For we will see that the characteristic mark of a purely logical enquiry, is that it is concerned with the formal consequences of our definitions and not with questions of empirical fact.

Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.

Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

...we must first scrutinize thoroughly anything appearing in our hearts or any saying suggested to us. Has it come purified from the divine and heavenly fire of the Holy Spirit? Or does it lean toward Jewish superstition? Is its surface piety something which has come down from bloated worldly philosophy? We must examine this most carefully, doing as the apostle bids us: 'Do not believe in every spirit, but make sure to find out if spirits are from God'.

Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.

Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.

It is the mark of a superior person that, left to themselves they are able endlessly to amuse, interest and entertain themselves out of their personal stock of meditations, ideas, criticisms, memories, philosophy, humor and what not.

It requires philosophy and heroism to rise above the opinion of the wise men of all nations and races.

Philosophy insists that there is a joy which is absolute, which never changes.

This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.