Quotes on Philosophy

At the eve of World Philosophy Day

By celebrating World Philosophy Day each year, on the third Thursday of November, UNESCO underlines the enduring value of philosophy for the development of human thought, for each culture and for each individual.

1. Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
2. Philosophy is nothing but common sense in a dress suit.
3. Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
4. We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.
5. Philosophy is just a hobby.  You can't open a philosophy factory.
6. Get married, in any case.  If you happen to get a good mate, you will be happy; if a bad one, you will become philosophical, which is a fine thing in itself.
7. The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
8. The natural philosophers are mostly gone.  We modern scientists are adding too many decimals.
9. God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose.  Take which you please - you can never have both.
10. Philosophy is a route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing. 
11. Philosophy begins in wonder.  And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.