Philosophy Quote by Martha Nussbaum

“if philosophy develops in the right ways, it might help ease the conflicts between rival dogmatic certainties. But, even if this hope is right,…

— Jonathan Glover

“Philosophy is the critically reflective, systematically articulated attempt to illumine our human experience in depth and set it in a vision of the whole.”

— W. Norris Clarke

A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion.

— Charles Peguy

“Philosophy should make clear and delimit sharply the thoughts which otherwise are, as it were, opaque and blurred.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

Many of the greatest works of philosophy seem to me to be valuable not because of their arguments, but because they offer us perspectives…

— Philip Kitcher

Philosophy is an amazing tissue of really fine thinking and incredible, puerile mistakes. It's like one of those rubber 'bones' they give dogs to…

— Olaf Stapledon

“The words most charged with philosophy are not necessarily those that contain what they say, but rather those that most energetically open upon Being,…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“Philosophy is a will to confront human artifice with its outside, with Nature.”

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Philosophy inspires you to live a better life by being better to yourself.

— Senora Roy

Philosophy teaches us to look at the world again. It brings out at a theoretical level what all plain, common, ordinary people, in a…

— Simon Critchley

Philosophy attempts, not to discover new truths about the world, but to gain a clear view of what we already know and believe about…

— Michael Dummett