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If philosophy is to be a valuable part of life, we have to appreciate it for its own sake, and not just for what…

— Julian Baggini

Philosophy is an act of living.

— Plutarch

Philosophy is fundamentally about how you come to terms with living your life and trying to do it in a wise manner, and, for…

— Cornel West

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

Philosophy is a proud, sullen detector of the poverty and misery of man. It may turn him from the world with a proud, sturdy…

— Richard Cecil

Philosophy seems to me on the whole a rather hopeless business.

— Bertrand Russell

Above all else, philosophy ought to aim for clarification - of the self, one's place in the world, and the ways we make meaning.…

— Peg O'Connor

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 indeed outrageous, inherently so. It seeks to disquiet the foundations of our lives and to offer us in recompense nothing better than…

— Stanley Cavell

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

— Epictetus

It is the duty of all who make philosophy the entertainment of their lives, to turn their thoughts to practical schemes for the good…

— Joseph Addison

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