Made Quote by Thomas B. Macaulay

Philosophy is the thoughts of men about human thinking, reasoning and imagining, and the real values in human existence.

— Charles William Eliot

Plato conceived of philosophy as necessarily gregarious rather than solitary. The exposure of presumptions is best done in company, the more argumentative the better.

— Rebecca Goldstein

Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Philosophy is man’s expression of curiosity about everything and his attempt to make sense of the world primarily through his intellect.

— Alan Watts

Philosophers are only men in armor after all.

— Charles Dickens

Only as an individual can man become a philosopher.

— Karl Jaspers

Philosophy abounds more than philosophers, and learning more than learned men.

— William Benton Clulow

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

— Anonymous

The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.

— Anonymous

To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.

— Anonymous

Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.

— David Hume

No philosophy based on an incorrect view of the nature of man is likely to produce social good.

— Stanley Kubrick