Accounts Quote by Thomas Malthus

The business of philosophy is to circumnavigate human nature.

— Julius Charles Hare

There is no other start to philosophy but wonder.

— Plato

Philosophy is everybody's business.

— Mortimer Adler

The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by…

— George Henry Lewes

Philosophy is the history of philosophy.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical…

— Bertrand Russell

The business of philosophy is not to give rules, but to analyze the private judgments of common reason.

— Immanuel Kant

The main Business of Natural Philosophy is to argue from Phænomena without feigning Hypotheses, and to deduce Causes from Effects till we come to…

— Isaac Newton

Philosophy seems to me on the whole a rather hopeless business.

— Bertrand Russell

Philosophy begins when you don't know where to look for an answer.

— P.B. Kerr

What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to…

— Epictetus