Famous Philosophy Quotes in English with Images

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

- William Shakespeare Quotes

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.

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.

Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naïve, and probably wrong.

One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.

I went off to college planning to major in math or philosophy of course, both those ideas are really the same idea.

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt.  I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

This is patently absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn no to frightened by absurdities.

There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

Leisure is the mother of philosophy.

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All philosophies, if you ride them, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.

True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.