Top 50 Philosophize Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Philosophize

#1. Reason is the inextinguishable impulse to philosophize with whose destruction reason itself is destroyed.

#2. We must laugh and philosophize and manage our households and look after our other affairs all at the same time, and never stop proclaiming the words of the true philosophy.

Epicurus

#3. To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#4. If you don't generalize you don't philosophize.

Robert M. Pirsig

#5. I am getting old and the sign of old age is that I begin to philosophize and ponder over problems which should not be my concern at all.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#6. One can perfectly well philosophize while cooking supper.

Juana Ines De La Cruz

#7. To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.

Blaise Pascal

#8. To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.

Michel De Montaigne

#9. Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#10. Whether we will philosophize or we won't philosophize, we must philosophize.

Aristotle.

#11. It is nonsense to speak of 'higher' and 'lower' pleasures. To a hungry man it is, rightly, more important that he eat than that he philosophize.

W. H. Auden

#12. I'm not made to philosophize, I don't have the heart for it. My heart is more like a machine for making blood to be spilled in a knife fight...

Camilo Jose Cela

#13. Study is to study what cannot be studied. Undertaking means undertaking what cannot be undertaken. Philosophizing is to philosophize about what cannot be philosophized about. Knowing that knowing is unknowable is true perfection.

Zhuangzi

#14. A weaver who has to direct and to interweave a great many little threads has no time to philosophize about it, but rather he is so absorbed in his work that he doesn't think but acts, and he feels how things must go more than he can explain it.

Vincent Van Gogh

#15. They who depend upon manifest observations will philosophize better than those who persist in opinions repugnant to the senses.

Galileo Galilei

#16. For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize.

Aristotle.

#17. To philosophize is to doubt.

Michel De Montaigne

#18. Apes had it worked out. No ape would philosophize, "The mountain is, and is not." They would think, "The banana is. I will eat the banana. There is no banana. I want another banana.

Terry Pratchett

#19. In Russia there is no philosophy, but philosophize everything, even the small fry.

Anton Chekhov

#20. It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.

Aristotle.

#21. I'm not at my best when I moralize or philosophize. Logic is elusive, especially to one who so rarely uses it.

Tallulah Bankhead

#22. I am trying not to philosophize. It is un-military. I think I can dig myself out of my academic mind and make an efficient officer.

James Carl Nelson

#23. Plato dramatically puts the detachment of the philosopher from his time this way: to philosophize is to prepare to die.

Rebecca Goldstein

#24. To philosophize with open eyes is to philosophize in the dark. Only the blind can look straight at the sun.

Louis Althusser

#25. Walk, first, through the fire, then philosophize ...

Rohinton Mistry

#26. I suggest in my own discussion of this episode, Mann invites us to set the attempt to philosophize about his predicament in the context of Aschenbach's life. The literary presentation thus adds to the naked philosophical skeleton.

Philip Kitcher

#27. I don't consider myself a moral man. I do not philosophize about life or bother with laws and principles that govern most people. I do not pretend to know the difference between right and wrong. But I do live by a certain kind of code. And somethimes, I think, you have how to shoot first.

Tahereh Mafi

#28. To scorn philosophy is truly to philosophize.

Blaise Pascal

#29. To philosophize means to make vivid.

Novalis

#30. Philosophize: you are a mistress, part of a great hysterical you mean historical tradition.

Lorrie Moore

#31. To philosophize man must put his whole soul into play, in much the same manner that to run he must use his heart and lungs.

Jacques Maritain

#32. Zoological taxonomists in general are inclined to be practical workers rather than philosophers, if only because they face such an unending task that they are not encouraged to sit back and philosophize.

Richard E. Blackwelder

#33. A tyrant remains a tyrant no matter how benevolently he may philosophize and smile,

David I. Kertzer

#34. What need had the businessman to scribble or philosophize when he dominated the imagination of his time and the frantic materialism that was his principle of existence had become the haunting central figure in contemporary life?

Alfred Kazin

#35. You know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#36. When one begins to philosophize one must be first a Spinozist. The soul must bathe itself in the aether of this single substance, in
which everything one has held dear is submerged.

Hegel G W F

#37. Those that can, philosophize. Those who can't, do.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#38. To philosophize is to learn to die.

Michel De Montaigne

#39. Your friend Plato holds that commonwealths will only be happy when either philosophers rule or rulers philosophize: how remote happiness must appear when philosophers won't even deign to share their thoughts with kings.

Thomas More

#40. Plato ... says a multitude can never philosophize and hence can never recognize the seriousness of philosophy or who really philosophizes. Attempting to influence the multitude results in forced prostitution.

Allan Bloom

#41. There are two sorts of ignorance: we philosophize to escape ignorance; we start from the one, we repose in the other; they are the goals from which and to which we tend; and the pursuit of knowledge is but a course between two ignorances, as human life is only a traveling from grave to grave.

Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

#42. I like simple things well-done and have no time to philosophize.

George R R Martin

#43. Michael could never remember his father ever having uttered a word about death, as if the Don respected death too much to philosophize about it.

Mario Puzo

#44. It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and then by gradual progression raising questions about the greater matters too.

Aristotle.