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Philosophy is altogether less pure now. It's been impurified by science and social science and history.

— Bernard Williams

Only as an individual can man become a philosopher.

— Karl Jaspers

If what charms you is nothing but abstract principles, sit down and turn them over quietly in your mind: but never dub yourself a…

— Epictetus

Sometimes we let other people's reality become our own. The circumstances need to be studied to thus follow a philosophy.

— Anonymous

Science never makes an advance until philosophy authorizes it to do so.

— Thomas E. Mann

You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.

— Maxim Gorky

Philosophy... is indeed outrageous, inherently so. It seeks to disquiet the foundations of our lives and to offer us in recompense nothing better than…

— Stanley Cavell

I have no personal system of philosophy. I never attempt to do that. I am merely a man of letters.

— Jorge Luis Borges

True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.

— Victor Cousin

Without theory there is nothing to modify or learn.

— W. Edwards Deming

There is a ... matter - much more valuable and divine than natural philosophy . ... On this matter I must speak to you in enigmas.

— Plato

Philosophy studies the world, but the point is to change it.

— Karl Marx