Instinct Quote by Bertrand Russell

Philosophy cannot be extinguished, though men will try ... The spirit seeks the light, that is its nature. It wishes to return to its…

— Iain Pears

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

— Henry Miller

“All human philosophy is riddled with the nightmare of searching in vain.”

— wilhelm reich

A scientist may not be sure of the answer, but he's often sure he can find one. And that's a condition which is clearly…

— Anonymous

One of the strongest motives that leads men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness.…

— Walter Isaacson

The men who are not interested in philosophy need it most urgently; they are most helplessly in its power.

— Ayn Rand

“The purpose of philosophy is not to help men find a meaning in life, but to prove to them that there isn't any”

— Ayn Rand

Sometimes we seek that which we are not yet ready to find.

— Libba Bray

But I owe it to the subject to say, that it has long afforded me what philosophy is so often thought, and made, barren…

— J. L. Austin

Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will…

— Samuel Smiles

The search for truth is, as it always has been, the noblest expression of the human spirit. Man's insatiable desire for knowledge about himself,…

— Raymond B. Fosdick

The life of theoretical philosophy is the best and happiest a man can lead. Few men are capable of it and then only intermittently.…

— Aristotle