Ancient Quote by Julian Baggini

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

— Bernard Williams

Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits. It works in the minutest crannies and it opens outthe…

— William James

The Greeks, with their truly healthy culture, have once and for all justified philosophy simply by having engaged in it, and having engaged in…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Agnes Denes

Philosophy is the history of philosophy.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Philosophy can be compared to some powders that are so corrosive that, after they have eaten away the infected flesh of a wound, they…

— Pierre Bayle

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 the toil which can never tire persons engaged in it. All ways are strewn with roses, and the farther you go, the…

— Anonymous

Philosophy isn't programmed into us, and a lot of the forces of our culture steadfastly work against it. Philosophy, for me, is a way…

— Simon Critchley

Philosophy is not a body of knowledge to impart to someone, that's why reading philosophy books isn't always the best way of learning philosophy.…

— Dale Jamieson

Philosophy must never be divorced from action. Unless it is put into practice, philosophy is nothing more than an intellectual game.

— Josei Toda

When one begins to reflect on philosophy—then philosophy seems to us to be everything, like God, and love. It is a mystical, highly potent,…

— Novalis