Internet Quote by Josiah Royce

Philosophers have actually devoted themselves, in the main, neither to perceiving the world, nor to spinning webs of conceptual theory, but to interpreting the…

— Josiah Royce

“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it”

— Karl Marx

“Spiritual activity, education, civilization, culture, the idea are all vague, indefinite concepts, under the banner of which it is quite convenient to use words…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Historically, philosophy does not have an impressive track record of answering questions about natural world in a decisive manner.”

— Christof Koch

“Behind every civilization lies a vision and a worldview, and none is greater or more lasting than the strength of its vision.”

— Os Guinness

“Your perception of the world and the way you see yourself in it has created within your mind a concept, a philosophy, of the…

— Chris Prentiss

“Individual identities and national destines were shaped by the tripod of history, geography, and philosophy.”

— Patrick Mendis

Some philosophers are drawn to the subject [of philosophy] via their interest in the nature and structure of the world external to us. Others…

— Jason Stanley

“Concepts for a philosopher are only nets for catching sense.”

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“All philosophies are mental fabrications.”

— Nagarjuna Erik Hoogcarspel

“The central assertion of this book is that the world of humankind constitutes a manifold, a totality of interconnected processes, and inquiries that disassemble…

— Eric R. Wolf

“whenever a philosophy begins to believe in itself. It always creates the world according to its own image, it cannot do otherwise;”

— Friedrich Nietzsche