Philosophy Quote by W. Somerset Maugham

“He defined philosophy as the finding of bad reason for what one believes by instinct. As if one believed anything by instinct! One believes…

— Aldous Huxley

“He was the type of man who had his own sense of logic and reached his own conclusions without regard to the opinions of…

— Haruki Murakami

“The man who has no tincture of philosophy goes through life imprisoned in the prejudices derived from common sense, from the habitual beliefs of…

— Bertrand Russell

Philosophy is "an unusually stubborn attempt to think clearly.

— William James

I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the…

— Nicolaus Copernicus

“As commonly practiced, philosophy is the attempt to find good reasons for conventional beliefs.”

— John N. Gray

“The history of philosophy is, to a great extent, that of a certain clash of human temperaments…Of whatever temperament a philosopher is, he tries,…

— William James

Philosophy is doubt

— Michel De Montaigne

“Philosophy cannot and should not give us an account of faith, but should understand itself and know just what it has indeed to offer,…

— Søren Kierkegaard

A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion.

— Charles Peguy

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

— Anonymous

The philosopher should be a man willing to listen to every suggestion,but determined to judge for himself.He should not be a respector of persons,but…

— Michael Faraday