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Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously.

— Bertrand Russell

“the illusion is encouraged that philosophy is an irrelevant, abstract subject - part of the decoration of a cultured life perhaps, but unnecessary in…

— Anonymous

Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.

— Francis Bacon

“Indeed, some of the problems commonly engaging the attention of philosophical thought appear to be deprived, not only of all importance, but of any…

— René Guénon

The Beginning of Philosophy is a Consciousness of your own Weakness and inability in necessary things.

— Epictetus

The word " philosophy " carries unfortunate connotations: impractical, unworldly, weird.

— Simon Blackburn

“Philosophy being nothing else but the study of wisdom and truth, it may with reason be expected that those who have spent most time…

— George Berkeley

“Faced with the thoughts, the actions of a woman whom we love, we are as completely at a loss as the world's first natural…

— Marcel Proust

It is not impossible to think that the minds of philosophers sometimes act like those of other mortals, and that, having once been determined…

— Morris Raphael Cohen

“Their [philosophers] thinking is, in fact, far less a discovery than a re-recognizing, a remembering, a return and a home-coming to a far-off, ancient…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm…

— Elias Canetti

Philosophy arises from an unusually obstinate attempt to arrive at real knowledge. What passes for knowledge in ordinary life suffers from three defects: it…

— Bertrand Russell