There’s A Difference Between A Philosophy And A Bumper Sticker.
- Charles M. Schulz
Philosophy Is A Battle Against The Bewitchment Of Our Intelligence By Means Of Language.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
True Philosophy Invents Nothing; It Merely Establishes And Describes What Is.
- Victor Cousin
One Cannot Conceive Anything So Strange And So Implausible That It Has Not Already Been Said By One Philosopher Or Another.
- Rene Descartes
Leisure Is The Mother Of Philosophy.
- Thomas Hobbes
Philosophers Say A Great Deal About What Is Absolutely Necessary For Science, And It Is Always, So Far As One Can See, Rather Naive, And Probably Wrong.
- Richard Feynman
The Point Of Philosophy Is To Start With Something So Simple As Not To Seem Worth Stating, And To End With Something So Paradoxical That No One Will Believe It.
- Bertrand Russell
I Think We Ought Always To Entertain Our Opinions With Some Measure Of Doubt. I Shouldn’t Wish People Dogmatically To Believe Any Philosophy, Not Even Mine.
There Is Nothing So Absurd But Some Philosopher Has Said It.
- Cicero
Philosophy Consists Very Largely Of One Philosopher Arguing That All Others Are Jackasses. He Usually Proves It, And I Should Add That He Also Usually Proves That He Is One Himself.
- H. L. Mencken
There Is Only One Thing A Philosopher Can Be Relied Upon To Do, And That Is To Contradict Other Philosophers.
- William James
This Is Patently Absurd; But Whoever Wishes To Become A Philosopher Must Learn Not To Be Frightened By Absurdities.
Who You Are Isn’t Tied Solely To What You Say, Even Though It May Feel That Way To You Now.
- Diane Ackerman
All Philosophies, If You Ride Them, Are Nonsense, But Some Are Greater Nonsense Than Others.
- Samuel Butler
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