Being afraid Quote by Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Philosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere.

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine

To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.

— Michel de Montaigne

To philosophize is to doubt.

— Michel de Montaigne

To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.

— Rene Descartes

Philosophizing is a process of making sense out of experience.

— Susanne Katherina Langer

All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all off which limit it to a fake learnedness.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

To philosophize means to make vivid.

— Novalis

Philosophizing means, then, to ascend from public dogma to essentially private knowledge.

— Leo Strauss

All philosophies are mental fabrications. There has never been a single doctrine by which one could enter the true essence of things.

— Anonymous

There are philosophies which are unendurable not because men are cowards, but because they are men.

— Ludwig Lewisohn

There is always a philosophy for lack of courage.

— Albert Camus

Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.

— Horace Smith