While wading through the whims...

While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work [Plato's Republic], I laid it down often to ask myself how it could have been that the world should have so long consented to give reputation to such nonsense as this?

~Thomas Jefferson
Third President of the USA~

When he who hears does not kno...

When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy.

~ Voltaire
1694-1778, French Historian, Writer~

What sort of philosophers are ...

What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing about the origin and destiny of cats?

~Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist~

To be a real philosopher all t...

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.

~William James
1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author~

To be a philosopher is not mer...

To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.

~Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist~

The pursuit of what is true an...

The pursuit of what is true and the practice of what is good are the two most important objects of philosophy.

~ Voltaire
1694-1778, French Historian, Writer~

The proper method of philosoph...

The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the insoluble problems in all their insolubility and then in simply contemplating them, fixedly and tirelessly, year after year, without any hope, patiently waiting.

~Simone Weil
1910-1943, French Philosopher, Mystic~

Philosophy is the product of w...

Philosophy is the product of wonder.

~Alfred North Whitehead
1861-1947, British Mathematician, Philosopher~

Philosophy is at once the most...

Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.

~William James
1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author~

Keep quiet and people will thi...

Keep quiet and people will think you a philosopher.

~Latin proverb~

If He Tom Sawyer had been a gr...

If He Tom Sawyer had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

~Mark Twain
American Humorist, Writer~

I know that you, ladies and ge...

I know that you, ladies and gentlemen, have a philosophy, each and all of you, and that the most interesting and important thing about you is the way in which it determines the perspective in your several worlds.

~William James
1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author~

Every philosophy is tinged wit...

Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.

~Alfred North Whitehead
1861-1947, British Mathematician, Philosopher~

Englishmen are babes in philos...

Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labor of its unfamiliar thought.

~William Butler Yeats
Irish Poet, Playwright~

Being a philosopher, I have a ...

Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.

~Robert Zend ~