Faith Quote by John N. Gray

Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy.

— Aldous Huxley

“He defined philosophy as the finding of bad reason for what one believes by instinct. As if one believed anything by instinct! One believes…

— Aldous Huxley

“Philosophy itself should not be merely "the pursuit of the knowledge of the truth" but should offer a practical guide for ordinary people in…

— Anthony Pagden

Philosophy is "an unusually stubborn attempt to think clearly.

— William James

Sometimes we let other people's reality become our own. The circumstances need to be studied to thus follow a philosophy.

— Anonymous

“Philosophy arose out of religion,”

— Herman Bavinck

Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal

— Al Goldstein

Philosophy is reason with the eyes of the soul.

— William Gilmore Simms

Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously.

— Bertrand Russell

“I was interested in this because it bore out an opinion of mine that philosophy is an affair of character rather than of logic:…

— W. Somerset Maugham

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

For me, philosophy is an activity of thought that is common to human beings. Human beings at their best.

— Simon Critchley