Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Plato

History should be written as philosophy.
Voltaire

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.
Karl Marx

My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you I the best place for the next moment.
Oprah Winfrey

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
Albert Camus

Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.
Albert Camus

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
Jim Rohn

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.
Jim Rohn

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
John Adams

Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.
Henry Miller

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
Edgar Allan Poe

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.
George Eliot

Ronald Reagan was a president of strength. His philosophy was a philosophy of strength - a strong military, a strong economy and strong families.
Mitt Romney

Philosophy is common sense with big words.
James Madison

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
John Kenneth Galbraith

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
George Bernard Shaw

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
Ludwig van Beethoven

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
Ambrose Bierce

Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
Ambrose Bierce