Branches Quote by Bertrand Russell

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

— Bernard Williams

Philosophy abounds more than philosophers, and learning more than learned men.

— William Benton Clulow

Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative.

— Richard Rorty

There is no other start to philosophy but wonder.

— Plato

Philosophy is the history of philosophy.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

it is harder to be philosophical when you are young.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I am an example of a person who got zeroed into a philosophy early.

— Pete Carroll

Learning philosophy is learning a particular kind of intuitive understanding.

— Iris Murdoch

Philosophy is for the few.

— William Gilbert

“But some of the greatest achievements in philosophy could only be compared with taking up some books which seemed to belong together, and putting…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophy itself cannot but benefit from our disputes, for if our conceptions prove true, new achievements will be made; if false, their refutation will…

— Galileo Galilei