Philosophy
When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy.
Voltaire (1694-1778) French writer and historian.
Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.
Karl Marx (1818-1883) German philosopher and political economist.
Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life.
Dale Carnegie (1888-1955) American writer.
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) American newspaperman and short-story writer.
The pursuit of what is true and the practice of what is good are the two most important objects of philosophy.
Voltaire (1694-1778) French writer and historian.
Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918) American historian, journalist and novelist.
We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626) British statesman and philosopher.
Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626) British statesman and philosopher.
The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the insoluble problems in all their insolubility and then in simply contemplating them, fixedly and tirelessly, year after year, without any hope, patiently waiting.
Simone Weil (1910-1943) French Philosopher
Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labor of its unfamiliar thought.
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) Irish poet, and playwright.