Consolation Quote by Richard Cecil

Philosophy is fundamentally about how you come to terms with living your life and trying to do it in a wise manner, and, for…

— Cornel West

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

If philosophy is to be a valuable part of life, we have to appreciate it for its own sake, and not just for what…

— Julian Baggini

When one begins to reflect on philosophy—then philosophy seems to us to be everything, like God, and love. It is a mystical, highly potent,…

— Novalis

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 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 means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life. Anytime you are going to build a society that…

— Susan Griffin

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

— Epictetus

Philosophy is man’s expression of curiosity about everything and his attempt to make sense of the world primarily through his intellect.

— Alan Watts

Philosophy, for me, is a way of relearning to look at the world, a world that is familiar to us, that we know, that…

— Simon Critchley

Philosophy is an act of living.

— Plutarch

“Philosophy cannot be taught. Philosophy is the union of all acquired knowledge and the genius that applies it: philosophy is the shining cloud upon…

— Alexandre Dumas