Common Quote by John Lancaster Spalding

( ...philosophy is more often the systematization of the prejudices of philosophers than the systematization of nature.) Distrust all generalizations: stick to the concrete.

— Epifanio de los Santos

Prejudice for regularity and simplicity is a source of error that has only too often infected philosophy.

— Roger Joseph Boscovich

“the problem with philosophy problems is that they don't have proper solutions”

— Martin Cohen

Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic

— Tryon Edwards

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

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

A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion.

— Charles Peguy

“In practice people who study philosophy too long become very odd birds, not to say thoroughly vicious; while even those who are the best…

— Plato

I don't feel proprietorial about the problems of philosophy. History has taught us that many philosophical issues can grow up, leave home and live…

— Julian Baggini

“It also appears to me that when prejudices persist obstinately, it is the fault of nobody so much as of those who make a…

— John Stuart Mill

Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.

— Oscar Wilde

“The man who has no tincture of philosophy goes through life imprisoned in the prejudices derived from common sense, from the habitual beliefs of…

— Bertrand Russell