Past Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils, but present evils triumph over it.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Ordinary philosophy is like a hound hunting his own tail. The more he hunts the farther he has to go, and his nose never…

— Benjamin Paul Blood

“Philosophy is the disease of which it should be the cure !”

— Herbert Feigl

Philosophy is the history of philosophy.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Philosophy will not be able to effect an immediate transformation of the present condition of the world. This is not only true of philosophy,…

— Martin Heidegger

As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.

— Karl Jaspers

Philosophy inspires you to live a better life by being better to yourself.

— Senora Roy

A history of civilization shares the presumptuousness of every philosophical enterprise: it offers the ridiculous spectacle of a fragment expounding the whole. Like philosophy,…

— Will Durant

Philosophy is the health of the mind.

— Seneca the Younger

Despite its successes, in the end, philosophical thinking always falls short of its real goal. It involves both the wonder of aspiring toward the…

— John Marmysz

If philosophy is to be a valuable part of life, we have to appreciate it for its own sake, and not just for what…

— Julian Baggini

Philosophy that satisfies its own intention, and does not childishly skip behind its own history and the real one, has its lifeblood in the…

— Theodor Adorno