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

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
William Butler Yeats

The ultimate triumph of philosophy would be to cast light upon the mysterious ways in which Providence moves to achieve the designs it has for man.
Marquis de Sade

They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.
Marquis de Sade

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.
Richard M. Nixon

A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Instead of art I have taught philosophy. Though technique for me is a big word, I never have taught how to paint. All my doing was to make people to see.
Josef Albers

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
Henry Ward Beecher

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

I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.
Charles M. Schulz

There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker.
Charles M. Schulz

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

As the new spirituality begins to become the pervasive spirituality of the planet, we'll find that we have abandoned our philosophy of contradictions in which we say we're all one but continue to try to win.
Neale Donald Walsch

Astonishment is the root of philosophy.
Paul Tillich

In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.
Timothy Leary

What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.
Elie Wiesel

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
Francis Bacon

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
Francis Bacon

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
Victor Hugo