Critical Quote by Sidney Hook

Philosophy is the science of estimating values. The superiority of any state or substance over another is determined by philosophy. By assigning a position…

— Manly Hall

Philosophy... is the creative perception by the spirit of the meaning of human existence.

— Nikolai Berdyaev

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

— Jim Rohn

The philosopher ... subjects experience to his critical judgment, and this contains a value judgment namely, that freedom from toil is preferable to toil,…

— Herbert Marcuse

Philosophy is the product of wonder. The effort after the general characterization of the world around us is the romance of human thought.

— Alfred North Whitehead

I have argued that philosophy doesn't begin in wonder or in the fact that things are, it begins in a realization that things are…

— Simon Critchley

Philosophy is the microscope of thought.

— Victor Hugo

Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

— Albert Camus

Philosophy begins in wonder.

— Plato

In a rising market, everyone makes money and a value philosophy is unnecessary. But because there is no certain way to predict what the…

— Seth Klarman

Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question...awareness of the problem outlives all solutions. The answers are questions in disguise,…

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

Philosophy fulfills the need to create for ourselves a single and complete concept of the world and of life.

— Miguel de Unamuno