Philosophy Quote by Plato

Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts…

— Plato

Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously.

— Bertrand Russell

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

“Other people are likely not to be aware that those who pursue philosophy aright study nothing but dying and being dead. Now if this…

— Plato

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

— Stanley Cavell

“Philosophy does not serve the State or the Church, who have other concerns. It serves no established power. The use of philosophy is to…

— Gilles Deleuze

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

As an example of just how useless these philosophers are for any practice in life there is Socrates himself, the one and only wise…

— Desiderius Erasmus

“We dont study philosophy, we rather do it.”

— William Lawhead

With a philosophy education, one can infuriate his peers, intimidate his date, think of obscure, unreliable ways to make money, and never regret a…

— Criss Jami

Philosophy is a bully that talks loud when the danger is at a distant; but, the moment she is pressed hard by an enemy,…

— Charles Caleb Colton