Able Quote by Stephen Cole Kleene

I saw that philosophy had no power to make my life more bearable. Thus I lost my belief in philosophy.

— Anonymous

I have a philosophy. I was convinced of it, and by winning trophies in four countries, I proved the philosophy worked.

— Louis van Gaal

I was interested in philosophy before I knew I was. That's to say, when I was at school, I used to argue with my…

— Bernard Williams

It started becoming clear to me how one might have views about the nature of mind and of knowledge which are empirically informed. This…

— Hilary Kornblith

Philosophy is regarded by many as inseparable from speculation. ... Philosophy has proceeded from speculation to science.

— Hans Reichenbach

As a teacher, it's a great help to be teaching philosophical systems you don't believe. You can actually do a better job of presenting…

— William H. Gass

Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

It might be suggested, and not easily disproven that anything, no matter how exotic, can be believed by someone. On the other hand, abstract…

— Shirley Jackson

Philosophical argument, trying to get someone to believe something whether he wants to believe it or not, is not, I have held, a nice…

— Robert Nozick

I do not presume that I have found the best philosophy, I know that I understand the true philosophy.

— Baruch Spinoza

Philosophy is doubt

— Michel De Montaigne

I studied philosophy in school, became disgruntled by the fact that it was a way to have a very interesting conversation with very few…

— Jonathon Keats