526 Quotations with Philo.
- 21. Victor Cousin: True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.
- 22. Fontenelle: A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until ...
- 23. William James: There is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do, and that is, ...
- 24. Charles Peguy: A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultima ...
- 25. Francois de La Rochefoucauld: Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils t ...
- 26. Voltaire: I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not c ...
- 27. Author Unknown: Religion is a man using a divining rod. Philosophy is a man using a pick and sho ...
- 28. Ralph Waldo Emerson: To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacre ...
- 29. Hippilyte Taine: Man may be considered as a superior species of animal who produces philosophies ...
- 30. Henry David Thoreau: Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, litera ...
- 31. Edward Bulwer-Lytton: "Know thyself," said the old philosopher, "improve thyself," saith the new. Our ...
- 32. Edward Bulwer-Lytton: He who esteems trifles for themselves is a trifler; he who esteems them for the ...
- 33. Charles Richter: According to Democritus, truth lies at the bottom of a well, the water of which ...
- 34. Eugene Delacroix: Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.
- 35. Ambrose Bierce: CARTESIAN, adj. Relating to Descartes, a famous philosopher, author of the celeb ...
- 36. Ambrose Bierce: DIARY, n. A daily record of that part of one's life, which he can relate to hims ...
- 37. Ambrose Bierce: EPICURE, n. An opponent of Epicurus, an abstemious philosopher who, holding that ...
- 38. Ambrose Bierce: ESOTERIC, adj. Very particularly abstruse and consummately occult. The ancient p ...
- 39. Ambrose Bierce: FOOL, n. A person who pervades the domain of intellectual speculation and diffus ...
- 40. Ambrose Bierce: GNOSTICS, n. A sect of philosophers who tried to engineer a fusion between the e ...
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