Philosopher Quotes

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
If the invaders reach Iran, the country will turn into a burning hell for them.
The meaning of a proposition is the method of its verification.
A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy.
Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols.
Conservatism clings to what has been established, fearing that, once we begin to question the beliefs that we have inherited, all the values of life will be destroyed.
Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.
If a philosophic theory is once ruled out of court, no one can tell when it will appear again.
If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good.
In thus pointing out certain respects in which philosophy resembles literature more than science, I do not mean, of course, to imply that it would be well for philosophy if it ceased to aim at scientific rigor.
It has generally been assumed that of two opposing systems of philosophy, e.g., realism and idealism, one only can be true and one must be false; and so philosophers have been hopelessly divided on the question, which is the true one.
It is not impossible to think that the minds of philosophers sometimes act like those of other mortals, and that, having once been determined by diverse circumstances to adopt certain views, they then look for and naturally find reasons to justify these views.
Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.
Law is a formless mass of isolated decisions.
Let philosophy resolutely aim to be as scientific as possible, but let her not forget her strong kinship with literature.
Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not to reject them but to find out what evidence there is to support them rather than their possible alternatives.
Liberalism regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situation, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability.
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