I have no personal system of philosophy. I never attempt…

Religion is a primitive form of philosophy, [the] attempt to offer a comprehensive view of reality.

— Ayn Rand

“As commonly practiced, philosophy is the attempt to find good reasons for conventional beliefs.”

— John N. Gray

Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal

— Al Goldstein

The man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his consideration only…

— James G. Frazer

A man of letters, merely by reading a phrase, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author.

— Marcel Proust

In a man’s letters his soul lies naked.

— Samuel Johnson

“Because a King who is caught alone with a Wolfe and his pack is still merely a man”

— Ella Frank

Woman was merely man's helpmate, a function which pertains to her alone. She is not the image of God but as far as man…

— Saint Augustine

It's Godlike to love man - even in his sin - merely because he's man.

— Dorothy Day

“A man abandoned by himself on a desert island would adorn neither his hut nor his person; nor would he seek for flowers, still…

— Immanuel Kant

“I believe a man’s finest hour often comes when he is at his weakest. When he is broken, affronted and at a place of…

— Jason Versey

“Because the core of my personal philosophy is that everything that happens to us benefits us, I was also spared the futility of cursing…

— Anonymous

A man of letters never objects to a slum. He sharpens his pen there.

— George A. Moore

Bierce radiates brilliancy, and perhaps no other man of letters ever had a more ready command of condensed expression. For him, each word has…

— Edwin Markham

“I transcribe my text with no concern for timeliness. In the years when I discovered the Abbé Vallet volume, there was a widespread conviction…

— Umberto Eco