Popular Quotes and Sayings about Philosophy |
| Illusion is the first of all pleasures. ~Oscar Wilde There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it. ~Cicero Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. ~Evelyn Waugh I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise. ~Lady Mary Wortley Montagu One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another. ~Rene Descartes It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived. ~Rene Descartes There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers. ~William James 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. ~Bertrand Russell |