Philosophy

Quotes regarding Philosophy and philosophers :

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• "'Philosophy' is a word which has been used in many ways, some wider, some narrower. I propose to use it in a very wide sense, which I will now try to explain."
  • Bertrand Russell A History of Western Philosophy

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• People often say to me,
  I understand what you are talking about intellectually, but I don’t really feel it, I don’t realize it,
  and I am apt to reply,
  "I wonder whether you do understand it intellectually, because if you did, you would also feel it." ~ Alan Watts

• "Philosophy studies the fundamental nature of existence, of man, and of man's relationship to existence. In the realm of cognition, the special sciences are the trees, but philosophy is the soil which makes the forest possible." ~ Ayn Rand

• "Believe nothing, O monks, merely because you have been told it … or because it is traditional, or because you yourselves have imagined it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings—that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide. ~ Gautama Buddha (attributed)

• "Science is what we know and philosophy is what we don't know." ~ Bertrand Russell

• "What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle." ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

• "Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex." ~ Karl Marx

• "Philosophy is the peculiarly stubborn attempt to think clearly." ~ William James

• "Philosophy, n. A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing." ~ Ambrose Bierce

• "The philosophers have only interpreted the world in different ways; the point, however, is to change it." ~ Karl Marx

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Philosophers