Inspirational Quote by Thomas Carlyle

What we learn from experience depends on the kind of philosophy we bring to experience.

— Anonymous

Philosophy begins with the understanding that you cannot just observe or experience and then report what you see, because how you conceptualize and symbolize…

— Eugene Gendlin

“So philosophy purifies the will. But philosophy is to be understood as experience and thought, not as mere reading or passive study.”

— Will Durant

“Philosophy cannot be taught. Philosophy is the union of all acquired knowledge and the genius that applies it: philosophy is the shining cloud upon…

— Alexandre Dumas

Philosophy teaches us to look at the world again. It brings out at a theoretical level what all plain, common, ordinary people, in a…

— Simon Critchley

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

— Baruch Spinoza

“Philosophy is the critically reflective, systematically articulated attempt to illumine our human experience in depth and set it in a vision of the whole.”

— W. Norris Clarke

If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward…

— Karl Jaspers

My teaching is not a philosophy. It is the result of direct experience... My teaching is a means of practice, not something to hold…

— Gautama Buddha

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

— Nikolai Berdyaev

“philosophy teaches us and unsettles us by confronting us with what we already know; there's an irony: the difficulty consisted in this course is…

— Michael J. Sandel

The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other peoples.

— William Ralph Inge