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philosophy

Albert Camus
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.
Albert Einstein
When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don't have in my mouth.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Ambrose Bierce
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
Aristotle
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
All men desire to know.
Ayn Rand
What do you know and how do you know it?
Bertrand Russell
Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they invent systems which make the future calculable, at least in its main outlines.
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.
Blaise Pascal
To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
Bruce Lee
I'm a philosophy major. That means I can think deep thoughts about being unemployed.
C.S. Lewis
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.
Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.
If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them.
Epictetus
Men are not disturbed by things, but the view they take of things.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Plato was a bore.
Galileo Galilei
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.