Philosophy Quotes

Philosophy Quotes & Sayings

These philosophy quotes and philosophy sayings are from our famous and inspiring collection. The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealised ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense of local and global distress. The square, overpopulation, the bourgeois, the bomb and the cocktail party are variously identified as sources of the grudge. There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born. - Renata Adler


Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God. - Sir Francis Bacon


If an angel were ever to tell us anything of his philosophy I believe many propositions would sound like 2 times 2 equals 13. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg


Music is a higher revelation than philosophy. - Ludwig Van Beethoven


Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes and compel it to inquire about life and standards and goods and evils. - Cicero [Marcus Tullius Cicero]


Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. - Sir Winston Churchill


True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is. - Victor Cousin


We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy. - Martin L. Gross


Friendship is not necessary, like philosophy, like art, It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. - C. S. Lewis