Philosopher

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it. ~

"Philosophy" is a word which has been used in many ways, some wider, some narrower. I propose to use it in a very wide sense, which I will now try to explain. ~

— Philosopher man

A man becomes a philosopher by reason of a certain perplexity, from which he seeks to free himself. ~

— Philosopher self

Philosophy is questions that may never be answered.is answers that may never be questioned.

— Philosopher questions

The philosopher as an analyst is not concerned with the physical properties of things, but only with the way in which we speak about them.

— Philosopher wit

Believe nothing, O monks, merely because you have been told it … or because it is traditional, or because you yourselves have imagined it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings—that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.

— Philosopher believe

A cleric who loses hisabandons his calling; a philosopher who loses his redefines his subject.

— Philosopher

Philosophy is explicitness, generality, orientation and assessment. That of which one would insinuate, thereof one must speak.

— Philosopher men

We may get some idea of the change in perspective that may occur in our reading and interpretation of the philosophical works of antiquity when we consider them from the point of view of the practice of spiritual exercises. Philosophy then appears in its original aspect: not as a theoretical construct, but as a method for training people to live and to look at the world in a new way. It is an attempt to transform mankind. Contemporary historians of philosophy are today scarcely inclined to pay attention to this aspect, although it is an essential one. The reason for this is that, in conformity with a tradition inherited from the Middle Ages … they consider philosophy to be purely abstract-theoretical activity.

— Philosopher philosophy

With the advent of medieval Scholasticism, ... we find a clear distinction between theologia and philosophia. Theology became conscious of its autonomy qua supreme science, which philosophy was emptied of its spiritual exercises, which, from now on, were relegated to Christian mysticism and ethics. Reduced to the rank of a “handmaid of theology,” philosophy’s role was henceforth to furnish theology with conceptual—and hence purely theoretical—material. When, in the modern age, philosophy regained its autonomy, it still retained many features inherited from this medieval conception. In particular, it maintained its purely theoretical character, which even evolved in the direction of a more and more thorough systemization. Not until Nietzsche, Bergson, and existentialism does philosophy consciously return to being a concrete attitude, a way of life and of seeing the world.

— Philosopher life

"'You only think you are barnpots,' shouted angry farmers from the meadows. 'Shut that row up! You're frightening the chickens, you lot and your bloody philosophy. You can't eat philosophy can you? Where would you be if us farmers went round spouting statements like that, eh? Dead, that's where you'd be! Because there'd be naff all to eat!"

— Philosopher philosophy

Philosophy is not the owl of Minerva that takes flight after history has been realized in order to celebrate its happy ending; rather, philosophy is subjective proposition, desire, and praxis that are applied to the event.

— Philosopher philosophy

what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical . , , , andco-operate just as they do in practical affairs; andit is if the passion be not something as petty as a love of personalover the philosopher across the way.

— Philosopher love

To philosophise is to learn to die – philosophising is a soaring up to the Godhead – the knowledge of Being as Being.

— Philosopher knowledge

and philosophy are at most a few thousand years old, but probably have lives of thousands of millions of years stretching away in front of them. They are only just beginning to get under way.

— Philosopher philosophy

Too much philosophy makes men mad.

— Philosopher philosophy

Philosophy is life's dry-nurse, who can take care of us -- but not suckle us.

— Philosopher life

It is perfectly true, as the philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.

— Philosopher life

In order to live, man must act; in order to act, he must make choices; in order to make choices, he must define a code of values; in order to define a code of values, he must know what he is and where he is – i.e. he must know his own nature (including his means of knowledge) and the nature of the universe in which he acts – i.e. he needs metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, which means: philosophy. He cannot escape from this need; his only alternative is whether the philosophy guiding him is to be chosen by his mind or by chance.

— Philosopher philosophy

Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars.

— Philosopher art

Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative.

— Philosopher progress

The philosopher places himself at the summit of thought; from there he views what the world has been and what it must become. He is not just an observer, he is an actor; he is an actor of the highest kind in a moral world because it is his opinion of what the world must become that regulates society.

— Philosopher society

A man becomes a philosopher by reason of a certain perplexity, from which he seeks to free himself.

— Philosopher self

Philosophy is no trick to catch the public; it is not devised for show. It is a matter, not of words, but of facts. It is not pursued in order that the day may yield some amusement before it is spent, or that our leisure may be relieved of a tedium that irks us. It molds and constructs the soul; it orders our life, guides our conduct, shows us what we should do and what we should leave undone; it sits at the helm and directs our course as we waver amid uncertainties. Without it, no one can live fearlessly or in peace of mind. Countless things that happen every hour call for advice; and such advice is to be sought in philosophy.

— Philosopher life

Shouldn't I join the ranks of philosophers and merely make unsubstantiated claims about the wonders of human consciousness? Shouldn't I stop trying to do some science and keep my head down? Indeed not.

— Philosopher science

I feel that we are all philosophers, and that those who describe themselves as a philosopher simply do not have a day job to go to.

— Philosopher job

When we affirm that philosophy begins with , we are affirming in effect that sentiment is prior to .

— Philosopher philosophy

What characterizes philosophy is this "step back" from actuality into possibility — the attitude best rendered by 's and 's motto quoted by : "Not Italy itself is given here, but the proof that it exists."

— Philosopher philosophy

Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 596-97.

— Philosopher quotes

A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.

— Philosopher philosophy

Sublime Philosophy! Thou art the patriarch’s ladder, reaching heaven; And bright with beckoning angels—but alas! We see thee, like the patriarch, but in dreams, By the first step, dull slumbering on the earth.

— Philosopher dreams

Beside, he was a shrewd philosopher, And had read ev’ry text and gloss over Whate’er the crabbed’st author hath, He understood b’ implicit faith.

— Philosopher faith

Before Philosophy can teach by Experience, the Philosophy has to be in readiness, the Experience must be gathered and intelligibly recorded.

— Philosopher read

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— Philosopher

The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.

— Philosopher philosophy

The Beginning of Philosophy is a Consciousness of your own Weakness and inability in necessary things.

— Philosopher you

Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.

— Philosopher doubt

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.

— Philosopher philosophy

That stone, Philosophers in vain so long have sought.

— Philosopher

Se moquer de la philosophie c’est vraiment philosophe.

— Philosopher men

Philosophy is nothing but Discretion.

— Philosopher philosophy

Adversity’s sweet milk, philosophy.

— Philosopher philosophy

The philosopher is Nature’s pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.

— Philosopher heaven

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— Philosopher art

Why should not grave Philosophy be styled? Herself, a dreamer of a kindred stock, A dreamer, yet more spiritless and dull?

— Philosopher dream

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