Cease Quote by John Dewey

Philosophy cannot be extinguished, though men will try ... The spirit seeks the light, that is its nature. It wishes to return to its…

— Iain Pears

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

The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to…

— Ernst Mach

And usually [the philosopher] philosophizes either in order to resign himself to life, or to seek some finality in it, or to distract himself…

— Miguel de Unamuno

We thought philosophy ought to be patient and unravel people's mental blocks. Trouble with doing that is, once you've unravelled them, their heads fall…

— Frederic Raphael

When one begins to reflect on philosophy—then philosophy seems to us to be everything, like God, and love. It is a mystical, highly potent,…

— Novalis

Philosophy must never be divorced from action. Unless it is put into practice, philosophy is nothing more than an intellectual game.

— Josei Toda

Philosophy has degenerated into ideology.

— Peter Kreeft

Philosophy gets its ugly head into everything, but I don't think we live philosophy anymore. It's done.

— Agnes Denes

If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and…

— Ralph Adams Cram

“Ordinary philosophy is like a hound hunting his own tail. The more he hunts the farther he has to go, and his nose never…

— Benjamin Paul Blood

Without claiming to be exhaustive, I maintain that every philosophy reproduces within itself, in one way or another, the conflict in which it finds…

— Louis Althusser