Only Quote by Gilles Deleuze

“Philosophy does not serve the State or the Church, who have other concerns. It serves no established power. The use of philosophy is to…

— Gilles Deleuze

Philosophy is a corrective against sadness. Yet there still are people who believe in the profundity of philosophy!

— Anonymous

Above all else, philosophy ought to aim for clarification - of the self, one's place in the world, and the ways we make meaning.…

— Peg O'Connor

Philosophy isn't programmed into us, and a lot of the forces of our culture steadfastly work against it. Philosophy, for me, is a way…

— Simon Critchley

Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts…

— Plato

Philosophy is a proud, sullen detector of the poverty and misery of man. It may turn him from the world with a proud, sturdy…

— Richard Cecil

Philosophy exists in profoundest opposition to rhetoric, which is speaking for the sake of producing or controlling some effect in others' perceptions. Philosophy is…

— Kenny Smith

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

My philosophy is fundamentally sad, but I’m not a sad man, and I don’t believe I sadden anyone else. In other words, the fact…

— Antonio Machado

Philosophy is an amazing tissue of really fine thinking and incredible, puerile mistakes. It's like one of those rubber 'bones' they give dogs to…

— Olaf Stapledon

Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits. It works in the minutest crannies and it opens outthe…

— William James

Some kind of philosophy is a necessity to all but the most thoughtless, and in the absence of knowledge it is almost sure to…

— Bertrand Russell