British Quote by Leon M. Lederman

If you think about it, in the most dramatic moments of its history Europe has always turned to philosophy and, in turn, philosophy has…

— Roberto Esposito

“And were the vision of Democritus to have been adopted by Western civilization, instead of being cast aside for the pale views of Plato…

— Carl Sagan

“He played with the idea and grew wilful; tossed it into the air and transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it…

— Oscar Wilde

The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Philosophy has degenerated into ideology.

— Peter Kreeft

“Philosophy, which once seemed outmoded, remains alive because the moment of its realization was missed. The summary judgement that it had merely interpreted the…

— Theodor W. Adorno

“for philosophy, Socrates, if pursued in moderation and at the proper age, is an elegant accomplishment, but too much philosophy is the ruin of…

— Plato

Philosophy is the history of philosophy.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

I saw that philosophy had no power to make my life more bearable. Thus I lost my belief in philosophy.

— Anonymous

“Proposed Roads to Freedom In this book Russell weighs the respective advantages and disadvantages of Socialism, Marxism and Syndicalism.”

— John Stuart Mill

The fact is that philosophy has been a decisive source of inspiration in all the great crises that Europe has faced. It has been…

— Roberto Esposito

“Greeks did not invent philosophy, philosophy had existed across Latin America, Africa, Arabia, India and China, thousands of years earlier, not as some elitist…

— Abhijit Naskar