Attempting Quote by Rene Descartes

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

— Michel de Montaigne

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

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine

To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine

To philosophize is to doubt.

— Michel de Montaigne

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

— Anonymous

Philosophizing is a process of making sense out of experience.

— Susanne Katherina Langer

Most philosophies wrap their seekers in a strict belief system. By virtue of what they include, they exclude everything else, especially some vital realizations.…

— Charles Bates

To philosophize means to make vivid.

— Novalis

The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

One can delineate the domain of philosophy however one likes, but in its search for truth, philosophy is always concerned with human existence. Authentic…

— Herbert Marcuse

“Philosophy itself should not be merely "the pursuit of the knowledge of the truth" but should offer a practical guide for ordinary people in…

— Anthony Pagden

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