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"Why is it that you physicists always require so much expensive equipment? Now the Department of Mathematics requires nothing but money for paper, pencils, and erasers...and the Department of Philosophy is better still. It doesn't even ask for erasers." Isaac Asimov 4.194444444444445 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself." Henry Mencken 4.25 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"The only secure knowledge is that I exist." Rene Descartes 4.6875 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned." Author Unknown 4.663043478260869 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex." Karl Marx 4.488372093023256 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"What do you know and how do you know it?" Ayn Rand 3.7 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy." Albert Camus 4.757575757575758 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next." Henry Ward Beecher 4.75 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"No sooner do we depart from sense and instinct to follow reason but we are insensibly drawn into uncouth paradoxes, difficulties, and inconsistencies, which multiply and grow upon us as we advance in speculation; till at length, having wandered through many intricate mazes, we find ourselves just where we were, or, which is worse, sit down in a forlorn scepticism." George Berkeley 3.6666666666666665 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing." Ambrose Bierce 4.4 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize." Blaise Pascal 4.142857142857143 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"To teach how to live with uncertainty, yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy can do." Bertrand Russell 4.4 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they invent systems which make the future calculable, at least in its main outlines." Bertrand Russell 3.6666666666666665 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations." Aldous Huxley 4.5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution." Robert Zend 4.714285714285714 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"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." Bertrand Russell 4.666666666666667 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don't have in my mouth." Albert Einstein 4.416666666666667 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed." Blaise Pascal 4.285714285714286 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"I'm a philosophy major. That means I can think deep thoughts about being unemployed." Bruce Lee 4.682926829268292 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts; but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates." Henry Thoreau 2.6666666666666665 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote


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