Carrie Quote by Simon Blackburn

Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.

— Stephen Fry

Philosophy... is indeed outrageous, inherently so. It seeks to disquiet the foundations of our lives and to offer us in recompense nothing better than…

— Stanley Cavell

Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously.

— Bertrand Russell

People tend to have a knee-jerk response to the word 'philosophy'. You imagine it's abstract and inaccessible.

— Bettany Hughes

Philosophy seems to me on the whole a rather hopeless business.

— Bertrand Russell

Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts…

— Plato

Philosophy is an amazing tissue of really fine thinking and incredible, puerile mistakes. It's like one of those rubber 'bones' they give dogs to…

— Olaf Stapledon

Some kind of philosophy is a necessity to all but the most thoughtless, and in the absence of knowledge it is almost sure to…

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Nikolai Berdyaev

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

A great philosophy is not a philosophy without reproach; it is philosophy without fear.

— Charles Peguy