A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice. --G. K. Chesterton
And new Philosophy calls all in doubt,
The element of fire is quite put out;
The Sun
is lost, and th'earth, and no mans wit
Can well direct him where to look for it. --John
Donne
How charming is divine philosophy!
Not harsh and crabbèd, as dull fools suppose,
But
musical as is Apollo's lute,
And a perpetual feast of nectared sweets,
Where no crude
surfeit reigns. --John Milton
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
The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food. --W. Winwood Reade
To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher. – Blaise Pascal
Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory- the world? Then we pygmies must be content to have out paper allegories but ill comprehended. --Herman Melville
Thousands of years of enlightening wisdom cannot be ignored. Masters such as Confucius, Socrates, Thales, Plato, Aristotle, Buddha, Descartes, and many others are our ultimate legacy. Those who understand the true values of life are patrons of wisdom, new or old.
