Abstract Quote by A.J. Ayer

For me, philosophy is an activity of thought that is common to human beings. Human beings at their best.

— Simon Critchley

Philosophy, for me, is a way of relearning to look at the world, a world that is familiar to us, that we know, that…

— Simon Critchley

Philosophy, like science, consists of theories or insights arrived at as a result of systemic reflection or reasoning in regard to the data of…

— Joseph Alexander Leighton

Philosophy is the sum total of all that you know and what you decide is valuable.

— Jim Rohn

Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits. It works in the minutest crannies and it opens outthe…

— William James

Philosophy has a great sort of appeal in terms of an artistic or aesthetic organization of concepts. It's a conceptual art.

— William H. Gass

Philosophy is the toil which can never tire persons engaged in it. All ways are strewn with roses, and the farther you go, the…

— Anonymous

What is a philosophy? It Is an answer satisfactory to the reason to all the great problems of life. That is what is meant…

— Annie Besant

Philosophy is based on speculation, on logic, on thought, on the synthesis of what we know and on the analysis of what we do…

— P.D. Ouspensky

People tend to have a knee-jerk response to the word 'philosophy'. You imagine it's abstract and inaccessible.

— Bettany Hughes

When people ask me what philosophy is, I say philosophy is what you do when you don't know what the right questions are yet.…

— Daniel Dennett

Philosophy is that part of science which at present people chose to have opinions about, but which they have no knowledge about. Therefore every…

— Bertrand Russell