Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth. The Count of Monte Cristo
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Quote:- Philosophy does not claim to secure for us anything outside our control. Otherwise it would be taking on matters that do not concern it. For as wood is the material of the carpenter, and marble that of the sculptor, so the subject matter of the art of life is the life of the self.
Discourses and Selected Writings
Author:- Epictetus
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- Philosophy does not promise to secure anything external for man, otherwise it would be admitting something that lies beyond its proper subject-matter. For as the material of the carpenter is wood, and that of statuary bronze, so the subject-matter of the art of living is each person's own life.
Author:- Epictetus
Category:- best,philosophy
Quote:- Philosophy hasn't made any progress? - If somebody scratches the spot where he has an itch, do we have to see some progress? Isn't genuine scratching otherwise, or genuine itching itching? And can't this reaction to an irritation continue in the same way for a long time before a cure for the itching is discovered?
Culture and Value
Author:- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- Philosophy is an amazing tissue of really fine thinking and incredible, puerile mistakes. It's like one of those rubber 'bones' they give dogs to chew, damned good for the mind's teeth, but as food - no bloody good at all.
Odd John
Author:- Olaf Stapledon
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- Philosophy is like wine. There are good years and bad years but, in general, the older the better.
The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley
Author:- Eric Weiner
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- Philosophy is not a spectator sport.
Philosophy: The Essential Study Guide
Author:- Nigel Warburton
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- Philosophy is not for everyone, it can easily drain someone's energy. Thinking straight is the hardest job under the sun.
Author:- Mwanandeke Kindembo
Category:- Love
Quote:- Philosophy is one reason which could lead to death.
Author:- Santosh Kalwar
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
Author:- Novalis
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- Philosophy is the critically reflective, systematically articulated attempt to illumine our human experience in depth and set it in a vision of the whole.
The One and the Many: A Contemporary Thomistic Metaphysics
Author:- W. Norris Clarke
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- Philosophy is the preparation for death - for leaving the cave of earthly, corporeal existence. And the preparation for death is a lonely and quiet activity - it is the activity of contemplation.
Philosophy of Care
Author:- Boris Groys
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- Philosophy is the toil which can never tire persons engaged in it. All ways are strewn with roses, and the farther you go, the more enchanting objects appear before you and invite you on.
Author:- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
Author:- William James
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
Author:- Richard Feynman
Category:- science
Quote:- Philosophy ought to question the basic assumptions of the age. Thinking through, critically and carefully, what most of us take for granted is, I believe, the chief task of philosophy, and the task that makes philosophy a worthwhile activity.
Animal Liberation
Author:- Peter Singer
Category:- philosophy