• Categories
  • Philosophy Quotes   505
  • The agnostic, the skeptic, is neurotic, but this does not imply a false philosophy; it implies the discovery of facts to which he does not know how to adapt himself. The intellectual who tries to escape from neurosis by escaping from the facts is merely acting on the principle that “where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Wise Quotes , Philosophy Quotes
  • The democratic youth lives along day by day, gratifying the desire that occurs to him, at one time drinking and listening to the flute, at another downing water and reducing, now practicing gymnastic, and again idling and neglecting everything; and sometimes spending his time as though he were occupied in philosophy.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Plato Quotes , Plato Quotes , Philosophy Quotes
  • A philosophy can and must be worked out with the greatest rigour and discipline in the details, but can ultimately be founded on nothing but faith: and this is the reason, I suspect, why the novelties in philosophy are only in elaboration, and never in fundamentals.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Faith Quotes , Philosophy Quotes
  • I've thought a lot about what it means to be the President. I also understand an administration is not one person but an administration is dedicated citizens who are called by the President to serve the country, to serve a cause greater than self. And so I've thought about an administration of people who represent all America, but people who understand my compassionate and conservative philosophy.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Country Quotes , Philosophy Quotes
  • The system of Descartes... seemed to give a plausible reason for all those phenomena; and this reason seemed more just, as it is simple and intelligible to all capacities. But in philosophy, a student ought to doubt of the things he fancies he understands too easily, as much as of those he does not understand.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Philosophy Quotes , Science Quotes