Philosophy Quote by Robert Boyle

The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.

— Anonymous

Men accept without questioning that this world is real and important and worthwhile. This is faith. Philosophy is the ongoing questioning of this faith.

— Josiah Royce

Men are not philosophers, but are rather very foolish children, who, by reason of their partiality, see everything in the most absurd manner, and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Philosophy is the thoughts of men about human thinking, reasoning and imagining, and the real values in human existence.

— Charles William Eliot

The views of men can only be known, or guessed at, by their words or actions.

— George Washington

Too much philosophy makes men mad.

— Alan Judd

The men who are not interested in philosophy need it most urgently: they are most helplessly in its power. The men who are not…

— Ayn Rand

Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.

— Zhuangzi

“The purpose of philosophy is not to help men find a meaning in life, but to prove to them that there isn't any”

— Ayn Rand

If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and…

— Ralph Adams Cram

The one thing that unifies men in a given age is not their individual philosophies but the dominant problem that these philosophies are designed…

— Jacques Barzun

Philosophy abounds more than philosophers, and learning more than learned men.

— William Benton Clulow