Able Quote by Bertrand Russell

Philosophy, though unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to the doubts which it raises, is able to suggest many…

— Bertrand Russell

Philosophy is doubt

— Michel De Montaigne

“Among these surprising possibilities, doubt suggests that perhaps there is no table at all. Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions as we…

— Bertrand Russell

There are moments in life where the question of knowing whether one might think otherwise than one thinks and perceive otherwise than one sees…

— Michel Foucault

Philosophy starts with doubt and loves only truth.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Philosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any definite answers to its questions, since no definite answers can, as a rule,…

— Bertrand Russell

Philosophy limits the thinkable and therefore the unthinkable.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“My philosophy is ‘When in doubt, you can live without.”

— Christin Lovell

What is philosophy but a continual battle against custom?

— Thomas Carlyle

“[Philosophy] must set limits to what can be thought; and, in doing so, to what cannot be thought. It must set limits to what…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.

— Henry Miller