Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
David Hume

Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.
David Hume

Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.
David Hume

I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
Angela Davis

It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.
Sophia Loren

No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.
Annie Besant

Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.
Sydney J. Harris

In philosophy, you have to reckon with the implicit level of an accumulated reserve, and thus with a very great number of relays, with the shared responsibility of these relays.
Jacques Derrida

In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language governed it.
Jacques Derrida

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.
Anton Chekhov

My philosophy is, unless you're sick and need help, why bother?
Jackie Collins

It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment.
Thomas Malthus

Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and I firmly believe it requires but a little philosophy to make a man happy in whatever state he is.
Daniel Boone

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
Baruch Spinoza

The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
Linus Torvalds

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
John W. Gardner

Design is not for philosophy it's for life.
Issey Miyake

Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.
Nicolas de Chamfort

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

History is Philosophy teaching by examples.
Thucydides