Philosophy - Quotes
Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.
We philosophers are mistake specialists. (I know, it sounds like a bad joke, but hear me out.) While other disciplines specialize in getting the right answers to their defining questions, we philosophers specialize in all the ways there are of getting things so mixed up, so deeply wrong, that nobody is even sure what the right questions are, let alone the answers. Asking the wrongs questions risks setting any inquiry off on the wrong foot. Whenever that happens, this is a job for philosophers! Philosophy - in every field of inquiry - is what you have to do until you figure out what questions you should have been asking in the first place.
The history of philosophy is in large measure the history of very smart people making very tempting mistakes, and if you don`t know the history, you are doomed to making the same darn mistakes all over again.
Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply an admission of the obvious.
There are more things in Heaven and Earth, [...] than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.
There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to my church as a human being.
To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralysed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it.
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.