Becoming Quote by Plato

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

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 the toil which can never tire persons engaged in it. All ways are strewn with roses, and the farther you go, the…

— Anonymous

Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously.

— Bertrand Russell

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

Philosophy can be compared to some powders that are so corrosive that, after they have eaten away the infected flesh of a wound, they…

— Pierre Bayle

“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

“In practice people who study philosophy too long become very odd birds, not to say thoroughly vicious; while even those who are the best…

— Plato

People who turn to philosophy expecting to harvest a crop of formulas of wisdom or understanding do not understand-philosophy has such things, but they…

— Kenny Smith

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

— Bertrand Russell

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

The word " philosophy " carries unfortunate connotations: impractical, unworldly, weird.

— Simon Blackburn