Philosophy Quotes

The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important objects of philosophy.

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.

Philosophy is the product of wonder.

True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.

What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world.

Astonishment is the root of philosophy.

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

Philosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines.

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

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.

The boundary between philosophy and fiction is not as clear cut as you may think and the two definitely interact.

But it is the knowledge of necessary and eternal truths which distinguishes us from mere animals, and gives us reason and the sciences, raising us to knowledge of ourselves and God. It is this in us which we call the rational soul or mind.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn't it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked - as I am surprisingly often - why I bother to get up in the mornings.

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?