Appeals Quote by Sándor Márai

Philosophy is not just about talking or lecturing or even reading long, dense books. In fact, it is something men and women of action…

— Ryan Holiday

Teaching and writing about philosophy is about the only thing I've ever been really good at.

— Allen W. Wood

Above all else, philosophy ought to aim for clarification - of the self, one's place in the world, and the ways we make meaning.…

— Peg O'Connor

Philosophy is the sum total of all that you know and what you decide is valuable.

— Jim Rohn

Philosophy attempts, not to discover new truths about the world, but to gain a clear view of what we already know and believe about…

— Michael Dummett

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

I want to study philosophy. That fascinates me.

— Millicent Simmonds

Philosophy begins with the understanding that you cannot just observe or experience and then report what you see, because how you conceptualize and symbolize…

— Eugene Gendlin

Philosophy is not a body of knowledge to impart to someone, that's why reading philosophy books isn't always the best way of learning philosophy.…

— Dale Jamieson

Philosophy teaches us to look at the world again. It brings out at a theoretical level what all plain, common, ordinary people, in a…

— Simon Critchley

Philosophy stands in need of a science which shall determine the possibility, principles, and extent of human knowledge à priori.

— Immanuel Kant

Before philosophy can teach by Experience, the Philosophy has to be in readiness, the Experience must be gathered and intelligibly recorded.

— Thomas Carlyle