Example Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

Philosophy is the education of grown-ups.

— Stanley Cavell

I think that when people are at their best, when they are thinking, reflecting, cogitating, then they are doing philosophy. So I don't see…

— Simon Critchley

Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts…

— Plato

With a philosophy education, one can infuriate his peers, intimidate his date, think of obscure, unreliable ways to make money, and never regret a…

— Criss Jami

Philosophy, with the aid of experience, has at length banished the study of alchymy; and the present age, however desirous of riches, is content…

— Edward Gibbon

People who turn to philosophy expecting to harvest a crop of formulas of wisdom or understanding do not understand-philosophy has such things, but they…

— Kenny Smith

Learning philosophy is learning a particular kind of intuitive understanding.

— Iris Murdoch

Philosophy is a performance sport - you have to play it with somebody back and forth.

— Timothy Leary

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

— Jim Rohn

The great benefit of philosophy, which is also its great weakness, is that all its steps are taken in the spirit of doubt.

— Roger Scruton

“The nature of the case and the history of philosophy combine to recommend to us this division of intellectual labour between Academies and Universities.…

— John Henry Newman

“One expects philosophy to promote, and even to accelerate, the practical and technical business of culture by alleviating it, making it easier. {9}”

— Martin Heidegger