Philosophy is the art of living. [ Plutarch ]

How charming is divine philosophy! [ Milton ]

Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy,
There is healing in the bitter cup. [ Southey ]

It is the philosophy of the distaff. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Adversity's sweet milk - philosophy. [ William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet ]

Philosophy is the health of the mind. [ Seneca ]

Philosophy is nothing but discretion. [ John Selden ]

Queen of arts, and daughter of heaven. [ Burke ]

Divine Philosophy, by whose pure light
We first distinguish, then pursue the right;
Thy power the breast from every error frees,
And weeds out all its vices by degrees. [ Juv ]

Philosophy may be feigned, eloquence cannot. [ Quinct ]

To scorn philosophy is truly to philosophize. [ Pascal ]

Philosophy is reason with the eyes of the soul. [ Simms ]

Philosophy is the rational expression of genius. [ Lamartine ]

A true philosopher is beyond the reach of fortune. [ Landor ]

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain. [ Epictetus ]

Superstition excites storms; philosophy appeases them. [ Voltaire ]

To scoff at philosophy is to act as a true philosopher. [ Pascal ]

Philosophy, while it soothes the reason, damps the ambition. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]

Philosophy, well understood, is an excellent road to heaven. [ Chastel ]

The business of philosophy is to circumnavigate human nature. [ Hare ]

The philosophy of one century is the commonsense of the next. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

Knowledge of our duties is the most useful part of philosophy. [ Whately ]

To jest at the expense of philosophy is truly to philosophise. [ Pascal ]

Without philosophy we should be little above the lower animals. [ Voltaire ]

To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one's self to die. [ Cicero ]

Philosophy, if rightly defined, is naught but the love of wisdom. [ Cicero ]

Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man. [ Hume ]

Whence? whither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy. [ Joubert ]

It is the path of the passions that has conducted me to philosophy. [ J. J. Rousseau ]

Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses a particle of it. [ Thoreau ]

What is philosophy? It is something that lightens up, that makes bright. [ Victor Cousin ]

Proverbs embody the current and practical philosophy of an age or nation. [ William Fleming ]

Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism. [ Diderot ]

If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers. [ Frederick the Great ]

All that philosophy can teach is to be stubborn or sullen under misfortunes. [ Goldsmith ]

Philosophy teaches us to bear with calmness - the misfortunes of our friends.

Philosophy abounds more than philosophers, and learning more than learned men. [ W. B. Clulow ]

Books bear him up awhile, and make him try to swim with bladders of philosophy. [ Rochester ]

Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius. [ Isaac Disraeli ]

The precepts of philosophy effect not the least benefit to one confirmed in fear. [ Hitopadesa ]

This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey. [ Goldsmith ]

There is but one philosophy, and its name is Fortitude; to bear is to conquer our fate. [ Bulwer ]

A little philosophy leads men to despise learning; a great deal leads them to esteem it. [ Chamfort ]

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. [ William Shakespeare,Hamlet ]

Philosophy writes treatises on old age and friendship; Nature makes those on youth and love. [ D'Alembert ]

The Christian religion, rightly understood, is the deepest and choicest price of philosophy. [ Sir Thomas Moore ]

Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps doubt in reserve. [ Froude ]

Philosophy does not regard pedigree; she did not receive Plato as a noble, but she made him so. [ Seneca ]

Philosophy, when superficially studied, excites doubt: when thoroughly explored, it dispels it. [ Bacon ]

Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils, but present evils triumph over it. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was made for man. [ Macaulay ]

True philosophy raises us above grandeur, but nothing can raise us above the ennui which it causes. [ Mme. de Maintenon ]

A small inkling of philosophy leads man to despise learning; much philosophy leads man to esteem it. [ Chamfort ]

Philosophy may raise us above grandeur, but nothing can elevate us above the ennui which accompanies it. [ Mme. de Maintenon ]

Philosophy triumphs easily over evils past and evils to come; but, present evils triumph over philosophy. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

The problem of philosophy is, for all that exists conditionally, to find a ground unconditioned and absolute. [ Plato ]

The study of proverbs may be more instructive and comprehensive than the most elaborate scheme of philosophy. [ Motherwell ]

The philosophy of reasoning, to be complete, ought to comprise the theory of bad as well as of good reasoning. [ John Stuart Mill ]

Such a man, truly wise, creams off nature, leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up. [ Swift ]

Marriage has its unknown great men, as war has its Napoleons, poetry its Cheniers, and philosophy its Descartes. [ Balzac ]

How charming is divine philosophy! not harsh nor crabbed, as dull fools suppose, but musical as is Apollo's lute! [ Milton ]

The best philosophy to employ toward the world is to alloy the sarcasm of gayety with the indulgence of contempt. [ Chamfort ]

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

The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important objects of philosophy. [ Voltaire ]

The philosophy of princes is to dive into the secrets of men, leaving the secrets of nature to those that have spare time. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy, doubt, be in religion, what we priests term it, the greatest of sins? [ Bovee ]

Misfortunes, in fine, cannot be avoided; but they may be sweetened, if not overcome, and our lives made happy by philosophy. [ Seneca ]

Philosophy consists not in airy schemes or idle speculations; the rule and conduct of all social life is her great province. [ Thomson ]

When a man is in indigence, picking herbs is his philosophy; the enjoyment of his wife his only commerce, and vassalage his food. [ Hitopadesa ]

The philosopher is he to whom the highest has descended, and the lowest has mounted up; who is the equal and kindly brother of all. [ Carlyle ]

Philosophy is the art and law of life, and it teaches us what to do in all cases, and, like good marksmen, to hit the white at any distance. [ Seneca ]

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. [ Bacon ]

Without poetry our science will appear incomplete, and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry. [ Matthew Arnold ]

To abstain from pleasure for a time, in order the better to enjoy in the future, is the philosophy of the sage; it is the epicureanism of reason. [ J. J. Rousseau ]

I have always looked upon alchemy in natural philosophy to be like enthusiasm in divinity, and to have troubled the world much to the same purpose. [ Sir W. Temple ]

Under the veil of these curious sentences are hid those germs of morals which the masters of philosophy have afterwards developed into so many volumes. [ Plutarch ]

Without books, God is silent, justice dormant, natural science at a stand, philosophy lame, letters dumb, and all things involved in Cimmerian darkness. [ Bartholin ]

A vulgar man, in any ill that happens to him, blames others; a novice in philosophy blames himself; and a philosopher blames neither the one nor the other. [ Epictetus ]

Religion is the eldest sister of philosophy: on whatever subjects they may differ, it is unbecoming in either to quarrel, and most so about their inheritance. [ Landor ]

The sense of beauty enters into the highest philosophy, as in Plato. The highest poet must be a philosopher, accomplished like Dante, or intuitive like Shakespeare. [ Gladstone ]

Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy, doubt (called by Galileo the father of invention), be in religion what the priests term it, the greatest of sins? [ Bovee ]

Too austere a philosophy makes few wise men; too rigorous politics, few good subjects; too hard a religion, few religious persons whose devotion is of long continuance. [ St. Evremond ]

To be a husbandman is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather a retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world, as it is God's. [ Cowley ]

Life is a mission. Every other definition of life is false, and leads all who accept it astray. Religion, science, philosophy, all agree in this, that every existence is an aim. [ Mazzini ]

The stoical exemption which philosophy affects to give us over the pains and vexations of human life is as imaginary as the state of mystical quietism and perfection aimed at by some crazy enthusiast. [ Scott ]

Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. [ Lord Bacon ]

With us all is inconsistency. France, seriously speaking, is the country of wit and folly, of industry and idleness, of philosophy and fanaticism, of gaiety and pedantry, laws and their abuses, good taste and impertinence. [ Voltaire ]

Thinkers who trace systems of philosophy are merely impelled by an innate instinct; they know that their precepts, however excellent, are not suitable to the majority: the wisdom may be admired by many, but few will follow the principles. [ De Finod ]

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erecteth an absolute monarchy in the minds of men. [ Bacon ]

Art is a jealous mistress, and, if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture, or philosophy, he makes a bad husband, and an ill provider, and should be wise in season, and not fetter himself with duties which will imbitter his days, and spoil him for his proper work. [ Emerson ]

To act with commonsense, according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know; and the best philosophy, to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot, bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it whatever it is, and despise affectation. [ Horace Walpole ]

To behold, is not necessary to observe, and the power of comparing and combining is only to be obtained by education. It is much to be regretted that habits of exact observation are not cultivated in our schools; to this deficiency may be traced much of the fallacious reasoning, the false philosophy which prevails. [ Humboldt ]

He who expects from a great name in politics, in philosophy, in art, equal greatness in other things, is little versed in human nature. Our strength lies in our weakness. The learned in books are ignorant of the world. He who is ignorant of books is often well acquainted with other things; for life is of the same length in the learned and unlearned; the mind cannot be idle; if it is not taken up with one thing, it attends to another through choice or necessity; and the degree of previous capacity in one class or another is a mere lottery. [ Hazlitt ]