Accompany Quote by Francoise d'Aubigne, Marquise de Maintenon

Philosophy must indeed recognize the possibility that the people rise to it, but must not lower itself to the people.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.

— Orison Swett Marden

That happy state of mind, so rarely possessed, in which we can say, "I have enough," is the highest attainment of philosophy.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

What is philosophy? It is something that lightens up, that makes bright.

— Victor Cousin

The height of all philosophy is to know thyself; and the end of this knowledge is to know God.

— Francis Quarles

“[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

Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

Philosophy limits the thinkable and therefore the unthinkable.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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 is the toil which can never tire persons engaged in it. All ways are strewn with roses, and the farther you go, the…

— Anonymous

“However high we climb in the pursuit of knowledge we shall still see heights above us, and the more we extend our view, the…

— William George Armstrong

A philosopher of imposing stature doesn't think in a vacuum. Even his most abstract ideas are, to some extent, conditioned by what is or…

— Alfred North Whitehead