Clear Quote by Charles D. Broad

The continual pursuit of meanings-wider, clearer, more negotiable, more articulate meanings- is philosophy.

— Susanne Katherina Langer

Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.

— Stephen Fry

The word philosophy, as distinguished from science, is misleading, for it implies that what philosophy contains is impossible to be a systematic body of…

— Kedar Joshi

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

— James Madison

“...philosophy does not, like exact or empirical science, bring us to know things of which we were simply ignorant, but brings us to know…

— R. G. Collingwood

... Philosophy proper is a subject, on the one hand so hopelessly obscure, on the other so astonishingly elementary, that there knowledge hardly counts.

— G. H. Hardy

The word " philosophy " carries unfortunate connotations: impractical, unworldly, weird.

— Simon Blackburn

Unless one's philosophy is all-inclusive, nothing can be understood.

— Mary Ritter Beard

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

People tend to have a knee-jerk response to the word 'philosophy'. You imagine it's abstract and inaccessible.

— Bettany Hughes

Philosophy attempts, not to discover new truths about the world, but to gain a clear view of what we already know and believe about…

— Michael Dummett

Philosophy is one of the ways to use complicated sentences to explain simple concepts.

— Mariana Fulger