Affirming Quote by Simon Critchley

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 appears to some people as a homogenous milieu: there thoughts are born and die, there systems are built, and there, in turn, they…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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 at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits. It works in the minutest crannies and it opens outthe…

— William James

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

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

People who turn to philosophy expecting to harvest a crop of formulas of wisdom or understanding do not understand-philosophy has such things, but they…

— Kenny Smith

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

When people ask me what philosophy is, I say philosophy is what you do when you don't know what the right questions are yet.…

— Daniel Dennett

What is a philosophy? It Is an answer satisfactory to the reason to all the great problems of life. That is what is meant…

— Annie Besant

It's living - a broad spectrum of living - that teaches you how to live, not philosophy. Philosophy teaches you how to think.

— Ruth Rendell

For me, philosophy is an activity of thought that is common to human beings. Human beings at their best.

— Simon Critchley