Facts Quote by Allen W. Wood

Philosophy means thinking things out for oneself. Ultimately, there can be only one true philosophy, since reason is one and we all live in…

— William Ralph Inge

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

— Jim Rohn

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

— Simon Critchley

Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. A philosophical work consists essentially of…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

On the one hand, philosophy is to keep us thinking about things that we may come to know, and on the other hand to…

— Bertrand Russell

It's living - a broad spectrum of living - that teaches you how to live, not philosophy. Philosophy teaches you how to think.

— Ruth Rendell

Philosophy does provide me a structure and a way of thinking. Religion - like the religion I grew up with, Mormonism - also provides…

— Brian Evenson

Philosophy is the microscope of thought.

— Victor Hugo

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 is fundamentally about how you come to terms with living your life and trying to do it in a wise manner, and, for…

— Cornel West

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