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A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

» Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) Austrian-British philosopher

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

» Marcus Tulius Cicero (106-43) Writer,lawyer, politician and great roman orator

If He Tom Sawyer had been a great and wise philosopher, like the Writerof this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

» Mark Twain (1835-1910) American humorist, writer, and lecturer

Philosophy is doubt.

» Montaigne (1533-1592) French statesman, philosopher and essayist

There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fontenelle says he would undertake to persuade the whole public of readers to believe that the sun was neither the cause of light or heat, if he could only g

» Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993) American protestant preacher and author

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?

» Paul Auster (1947-?) American writer

Many talk like philosophers yet live like fools.

» Plutarch (46-120) Greek essayist, historian and biographer

Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.

» Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) Austro-German poet

All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.

» Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) Irish writer, dramatist and poet, ['¨Waiting for Godot' Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969]

I would advise you Sir, to study algebra, if you are not already an adept in it: your head would be less muddy, and you will leave off tormenting your neighbours about paper and packthread, while we all live together in a world that is bursting with sin a

» Samuel Butler (1835-1902) Novelist, iconoclastic Victorian-era English author

The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the insoluble problems in all their insolubility and then in simply contemplating them, fixedly and tirelessly, year after year, without any hope, patiently waiting.

» Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) French novelist and essayist

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

» Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) English author And polymath

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

» Marcus Tulius Cicero (106-43) Writer,lawyer, politician and great roman orator

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

» Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636-1711) French poet and critic

Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them.

» Pierre Beaumarchais (1732-1799) French dramatist

There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.

» René Descartes (1596-1650) French Mathematician

Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.

» Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) British poet, critic, and philosopher

Philosophy always requires something more, requires the eternal, the true, in contrast to which even the fullest existence as such is but a happy moment.

» Sophocles (497/6 -406/5 ) Greek tragidian ['Oedipus the King', 'Antigone']

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