Achievement Quote by Rebecca Goldstein

“But some of the greatest achievements in philosophy could only be compared with taking up some books which seemed to belong together, and putting…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

And usually [the philosopher] philosophizes either in order to resign himself to life, or to seek some finality in it, or to distract himself…

— Miguel de Unamuno

The philosopher creates, he doesn't reflect.

— Gilles Deleuze

“Every great philosopher, in their own way, questioned the fundamental assumptions that were present in the thinking of their time”

— Steven West

“Philosophy is a distancing, if not debilitating, activity.”

— Michael J. Sandel

Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.

— Francis Bacon

Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.

— Anonymous

The act of philosophizing involves the character of the philosopher.

— Jacques Maritain

The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to…

— Ernst Mach

It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

A philosopher may try to prove the truth of something he believed before he was a philosopher, but even if he succeeds, his belief…

— David Stove