Abandon Quote by Ernst Mach

A philosopher may try to prove the truth of something he believed before he was a philosopher, but even if he succeeds, his belief…

— David Stove

“Meanwhile, because humanity is still swept along by animal passions in a digitalized global world, and because we are conflicted between what we are…

— Edward O. Wilson

And usually [the philosopher] philosophizes either in order to resign himself to life, or to seek some finality in it, or to distract himself…

— Miguel de Unamuno

Philosophy recovers itself when it ceases to be a device for dealing with the problems of philosophers and becomes a method, cultivated by philosophers,…

— John Dewey

A man becomes a philosopher by reason of a certain perplexity, from which he seeks to free himself.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“A thinker cannot do other than convert his physical condition into the most highly intellectual of forms –this act of transformation is philosophy.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Man is the sole and absolute master of his own fate forever. What he has sown in the times of his ignorance, he must…

— Paul Bragg

This you may say of man - when theories change and crash, when schools, philosophies, when narrow dark alleys of thought, national, religious, economic,…

— John Steinbeck

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

Armed with all the powers, enjoying all the wealth they owe to science, our societies are still trying to practice and to teach systems…

— Jacques Monod

“At the moment when anyone begins to take philosophy seriously, all the world believes the opposite.” —Human, All Too Human, “Assorted Opinions and Maxims,”

— Friedrich Nietzsche