Conditions Quote by Isaac Newton

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

Our present work sets forth mathematical principles of philosophy. For the basic problem of philosophy seems to be to discover the forces of nature…

— Isaac Newton

Philosophy is a game with objectives and no rules. Mathematics is a game with rules and no objectives.

— Anonymous

You have heard of, and studied various systems of philosophy; but real philosophy is opposed to all systems.

— Frances Wright

In philosophy, the principles are more interesting than the examples. In literature, the examples are more interesting than the principles.

— Mason Cooley

I see philosophy as a fairly abstract activity, as concerned mainly with the analysis of criticism and concepts, and of course most usefully of…

— A.J. Ayer

Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

I would welcome the passing of the idea of philosophy as defined by a method of conceptual analysis. But that is not the passing…

— Robert Adams

“A principle is a set of philosophical ideas and life lessons that are combined and compressed together to provide a general guideline in order…

— Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

Philosophy is best practised by people in general and not by philosophers alone. Philosophy is too often a luxury now, but in ancient Greece,…

— Michel Onfray

Philosophy stands in need of a science which shall determine the possibility, principles, and extent of human knowledge à priori.

— Immanuel Kant

“The physical method becomes a philosophy when it asserts there is no higher knowledge than the empirical knowledge of scientific phenomena. The mathematical method…

— Fulton J. Sheen