Accepting Quote by Josiah Royce

Philosophy is the thoughts of men about human thinking, reasoning and imagining, and the real values in human existence.

— Charles William Eliot

Philosophy is man’s expression of curiosity about everything and his attempt to make sense of the world primarily through his intellect.

— Alan Watts

The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.

— Anonymous

“The purpose of philosophy is not to help men find a meaning in life, but to prove to them that there isn't any”

— Ayn Rand

Philosophy would solidly be established, if men would more carefully distinguish those things that they know from those that they ignore.

— Robert Boyle

Men are not philosophers, but are rather very foolish children, who, by reason of their partiality, see everything in the most absurd manner, and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men seldom think deeply on subjects in which they have no choice of opinion: they are fearful of encountering obstacles to their faith--as in…

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why.

— Eric Gill

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

— Benjamin Franklin

The men who are not interested in philosophy need it most urgently: they are most helplessly in its power. The men who are not…

— Ayn Rand

“Philosophy cannot and should not give us an account of faith, but should understand itself and know just what it has indeed to offer,…

— Søren Kierkegaard

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

— Anonymous