Philosophy Quote by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The Greek word for philosopher (philosophos) connotes a distinction from sophos. It signifies the lover of wisdom (knowledge) as distinguished from him who considers…

— Karl Jaspers

The act of philosophizing involves the character of the philosopher.

— Jacques Maritain

Making fun of philosophy is really philosophising.

— Blaise Pascal

A philosopher must be more than a philosopher.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We tend to think of philosophies as produced by professional philosophers. Traditionally, this has meant people who have written dissertations on obscure subjects or…

— Alain de Botton

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... is the creative perception by the spirit of the meaning of human existence.

— Nikolai Berdyaev

A philosopher ... is not fairly judged by his eccentricities, nor by the frailties to which he is liable; still less should his philosophy…

— John Grier Hibben

The philosopher is someone who doesn't know, but who wants to find out.

— Simon Critchley

“The dangers of sophistry and scholasticism are present in the possibility of philosophy itself.”

— Susan Neiman

In fact, philosophy is universal in scope. No man can live without a world view; therefore, there is no man who is not a…

— Francis Schaeffer

To scorn philosophy is truly to philosophize.

— Blaise Pascal