Built Quote by Bertrand Russell

Philosophy seems to me on the whole a rather hopeless business.

— Bertrand Russell

Talking high philosophy often confuses people, but a look from an egoless person can lift the clouds of pain and despair.

— Mata Amritanandamayi

“Hitherto philosophers have had the solution of all riddles lying in their writing-desks, and the stupid, exoteric world had only to open its mouth…

— Karl Marx

To take philosophy seriously is to engage with it philosophically.

— Jay L. Garfield

Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.

— William James

Philosophy has often attempted to repress insolence by asserting that all conditions are leveled by death; a position which, however it may defect the…

— Samuel Johnson

All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.

— Ernest Dimnet

If philosophy is still necessary, it is so only in the way it has been from time immemorial: as critique, as resistance to the…

— Theodor Adorno

The only philosophy that can be practiced responsibly in the face of despair is the attempt to contemplate all things as they would present…

— Theodor Adorno

Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously.

— Bertrand Russell

If philosophy has to serve some really noble purpose, it must be more observant than critical towards life

— Raheel Farooq

Philosophy is called upon to compensate for the frustrations of politics and, more generally, of life itself.

— Hannah Arendt