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"There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it." Marcus Tullius Cicero 4 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names." Marcus Tullius Cicero 3.25 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not you'll become a philosopher." Socrates 4.76923076923077 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"An unexamined life is not worth living." Socrates 4.56696428571429 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." Albert Einstein 4.52 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities." Thomas Paine 4 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities." Aristotle 3.875 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law." Aristotle 4.85714285714286 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all." Stephen Hawking 4.42857142857143 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"You cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on 'seeing through' things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it." C.S. Lewis 4.20833333333333 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation." C.S. Lewis 4.28571428571429 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Never judge a philosophy by its abuse." Saint Augustine 4.72727272727273 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"All men desire to know." Aristotle 4 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them." C.S. Lewis 4 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Philosophy is written in this grand book - I mean the Universe - which stands continually open to our gaze, but it cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and interpret the characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it." Galileo Galilei 4 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher." Ambrose Bierce 3.75 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote


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