Whether we will philosophize or we won't philosophize, we…

Man first begins to philosophize when the necessities of life are supplied.

— Aristotle

In the case of all other sciences, arts, skills, and crafts, everyone is convinced that a complex and laborious programme of learning and practice…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

To philosophize man must put his whole soul into play, in much the same manner that to run he must use his heart and…

— Jacques Maritain

Whoever it was who said that to philosophize is an exercise in dying was right in more ways than one, for by writing a…

— Joseph Brodsky

I had to philosophize. Otherwise, I could not live in this world.

— Edmund Husserl

They who depend upon manifest observations will philosophize better than those who persist in opinions repugnant to the senses.

— Galileo Galilei

Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

To philosophize with open eyes is to philosophize in the dark. Only the blind can look straight at the sun.

— Louis Althusser

To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.

— Michel de Montaigne

The world exists to let Man philosophize.

— Kedar Joshi

“To philosophize truth is unphilosophy.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“We just philosophize, complain of boredom, or drink vodka. It's so clear, you see, that if we're to begin living in the present, we…

— Anton Chekhov

In Russia there is no philosophy, but philosophize everything, even the small fry.

— Anton Chekhov

Plato dramatically puts the detachment of the philosopher from his time this way: to philosophize is to prepare to die.

— Rebecca Goldstein

I won't try to philosophize.

— Boys Like Girls