Dog Quote by John Jay Chapman

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 an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously.

— Bertrand Russell

Philosophy seems to me on the whole a rather hopeless business.

— Bertrand Russell

“There is no gainsaying the fact that this suggested program will strike most people as impossibly “radical” and “unrealistic”; any suggestion for changing the…

— Murray N. Rothbard

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 "an unusually stubborn attempt to think clearly.

— William James

Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Philosophy studies the world, but the point is to change it.

— Karl Marx

Philosophy that satisfies its own intention, and does not childishly skip behind its own history and the real one, has its lifeblood in the…

— Theodor Adorno

Philosophy is altogether less pure now. It's been impurified by science and social science and history.

— Bernard Williams

Philosophy is overwhelmingly complicated, its procedure depressingly slow.

— Max Horkheimer

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

— Agnes Denes