Force Quote by George Santayana

The foregoing considerations lead us to the very important conclusion, that matter is essentially force, and nothing but force; that matter, as popularly understood,…

— Alfred Russel Wallace

A great philosophy is not a philosophy without reproach; it is philosophy without fear.

— Charles Peguy

“Philosophy is a distancing, if not debilitating, activity.”

— Michael J. Sandel

There is no real philosophy until the mind turns around and examines itself.

— Will Durant

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

— Bettany Hughes

A philosopher will not believe what he sees because he is too busy speculating about what he does not see.

— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

Philosophy can be compared to some powders that are so corrosive that, after they have eaten away the infected flesh of a wound, they…

— Pierre Bayle

Our design, not respecting arts, but philosophy, and our subject, not manual, but natural powers, we consider chiefly those things which relate to gravity,…

— Isaac Newton

Philosophy is "an unusually stubborn attempt to think clearly.

— William James

We all more or less consciously note this. We cannot help observing that all serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.

— Ernest Dimnet

Philosophy ought to be able to give an account of rationality that is not wholly detached from science's account of nature, even if it…

— Ray Brassier

“A fine risk is always something to be taken in philosophy. ... Philosophy thus arouses a drama between philosophers and an intersubjective movement which…

— Emmanuel Levinas