Caught Quote by William James

Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.

— William James

Philosophy is an act of living.

— Plutarch

Philosophy is the art of living.

— Plutarch

It's living - a broad spectrum of living - that teaches you how to live, not philosophy. Philosophy teaches you how to think.

— Ruth Rendell

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

— Nikolai Berdyaev

I think philosophy is all about lived experience, which is to say life in the streets, life in a variety of different contexts.

— Cornel West

Philosophy is the microscope of thought.

— Victor Hugo

“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

Philosophy is the toil which can never tire persons engaged in it. All ways are strewn with roses, and the farther you go, the…

— Anonymous

Philosophy attempts, not to discover new truths about the world, but to gain a clear view of what we already know and believe about…

— Michael Dummett

What is philosophy? It is something that lightens up, that makes bright.

— Victor Cousin

Philosophy does not exist. It is nothing but an hypostatized abstraction.

— R. D. Laing