Aggressive 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 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

The use of philosophy is to sadden. A philosophy which saddens no one, that annoys no one, is not a philosophy. It is useful…

— Gilles Deleuze

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

— Bettany Hughes

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

When people ask me what philosophy is, I say philosophy is what you do when you don't know what the right questions are yet.…

— Daniel Dennett

Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.

— Stephen Fry

Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question...awareness of the problem outlives all solutions. The answers are questions in disguise,…

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

Philosophy is not just about talking or lecturing or even reading long, dense books. In fact, it is something men and women of action…

— Ryan Holiday

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 unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously.

— Bertrand Russell

the essence of philosophy is not the possession of the truth but the search for truth. ... Philosophy means to be on the way.…

— Karl Jaspers