Philosophy

(428 votes)   If He Tom Sawyer had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(295 votes)   Do not all charms fly at the mere touch of cold philosophy? There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: we know her woof, her texture; she is given in the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an angel's wings, conquer all mysteries by rule and line, empty the haunted air, and gnome mine unweave a rainbow.

John Keats
1795-1821, British Poet

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(244 votes)   The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatures are the willing playthings; he is less duped than his neighbor by his own nature. He judges more sanely, he sees things as they are. It is in this that his liberty consists -- in the ability to see clearly and soberly, in the power of mental record.

Henri Frederic Amiel
1821-1881, Swiss Philosopher, Poet, Critic

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(243 votes)   Philosophy will clip an angel's wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine - Unweave a rainbow

John Keats

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(218 votes)   Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.

St. Thomas Aquinas
1225-1274, Italian Scholastic Philosopher and Theologian

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(214 votes)   Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
1803-1873, British Novelist, Poet

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(197 votes)   Nothing is certain, not even that.

unknown (Arsecelaus ?) Arsecelaus
Greek Philosopher

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(196 votes)   The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful.

Sir Alfred Jules Ayer
1910-1989, British Philosopher

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(185 votes)   Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

Henry Brooks Adams
1838-1918, American Historian

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(169 votes)   Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates -- but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore! The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages.

Lord Byron
1788-1824, British Poet

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(125 votes)   For there was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(124 votes)   Look, I really don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive, you got to flap your arms and legs, you got to jump around a lot, you got to make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death. And therefore, as I see it, if you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy, or at least your thoughts should be noisy and colorful and lively.

Mel Brooks
1926-, American Actor, Director

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(124 votes)   The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to debase him by showing his miseries.

Blaise Pascal
1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher

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(110 votes)   How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do.

Arthur Schopenhauer
1788-1860, German Philosopher

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(94 votes)   Philosophy is a game with objectives and no rules. Mathematics is a game with rules and no objectives.

Anonymous

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