Abstaining Quote by Theodor Adorno

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

— Epictetus

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

— Miguel de Unamuno

Despite its successes, in the end, philosophical thinking always falls short of its real goal. It involves both the wonder of aspiring toward the…

— John Marmysz

“There is no intellectual exercise that is not ultimately pointless. A philosophical doctrine is, at first, a plausible description of the universe; the years…

— Jorge Luis Borges

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

“Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“We therefore conclude that no philosophy and no system of life produced by human thought can have the characteristic of "comprehensiveness." At most, it…

— Sayyid Qutb

I will not call it my philosophy; for I did not make it. God and humanity made it; and it made me.

— Anonymous

Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind.

— Anonymous

Although you may have never sat down and defined what your philosophy is, it is fully operative and working in your life at all…

— Chris Prentiss

True philosophy is that which renders us to ourselves, and all others who surround us, better, and at the same time more content, more…

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.

— Friedrich Nietzsche