Top 32 Philosophizing Quotes
#1. I want to be a great actor someday, and I've decided there's no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
Al Pacino
#2. You're a terrorist, notta rebel," Morganith added darkly, "and we're done philosophizing. Give us the lockbox and we'll kill you."
Natasha looked at Morganith uncertainly. "Don't you mean 'or' you'll kill us?"
"No, I mean 'and.
Ash Gray
#3. Philosophizing means, then, to ascend from public dogma to essentially private knowledge.
Leo Strauss
#4. Philosophy is the true home of irony, which might be defined as logical beauty: for wherever men are philosophizing in spoken or written dialogues, and provided they are not entirely systematic, irony ought to be produced and postulated; even the Stoics regarded urbanity as a virtue.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
#5. [On philosophizing] Sometimes you have to talk to find out what you think.
Dan Kieran
#6. I'm no romantic, surfing, California boy. I like reading, writing, philosophizing. Scheming. I've been doing some exploration of the inner space.
Henry Hopper
#7. For through wondering human beings now and in the beginning have been led to philosophizing.
Aristotle.
#8. To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
Rene Descartes
#9. I don't waste too much time philosophizing about wealth, I just recommend it to everyone.
Malcolm Forbes
#10. All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all off which limit it to a fake learnedness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#11. The head will go round and round thinking, brooding, philosophizing; it knows only words, logic, argument. But it is very infertile; you cannot get anything out of the head as far as truth is concerned, because truth needs no logic, no argument, no philosophical research.
Osho
#12. All gentle cant and philosophizing to the contrary notwithstanding, no people in this world ever did achieve their freedom by goody-goody talk and moral suasion: it being immutable law that all revolutions that will succeed, must begin in blood.
Mark Twain
#13. Nothing is more evident, I venture to think, as a result of two or three thousand years of social philosophizing, than that society must live and thrive by way of the native impulses of individual human beings.
William Ernest Hocking
#14. Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
John Dryden
#15. Are we philosophizing?" asked Harshaw. "Or were those song lyrics?
Leigh Bardugo
#16. The act of philosophizing involves the character of the philosopher.
Jacques Maritain
#17. I have tried to integrate the spirituality into the training in a way that meets my need not to destroy the beauty of it through abstract philosophizing.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#18. When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#19. My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.
Carol Moseley Braun
#20. I saw that leaders placed too much emphasis on what some call high level strategy, on intellectualizing and philosophizing, and not enough on implementation. People would agree on a project or initiative, and then nothing would come of it.
Lawrence Bossidy
#21. There's simply no philosophizing without a love of wisdom, absolutely.
Cornel West
#22. Their [philosophers] thinking is, in fact, far less a discovery than a re-recognizing, a remembering, a return and a home-coming to a far-off, ancient common-household of the soul, out of which those ideas formerly grew: philosophizing is so far a kind of atavism of the highest order.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#23. 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
#24. What's most troubling about this witless mishmash of whiny, infantile philosophizing and bone-crunching violence is the increasing realization that it actually thinks it's saying something of significance.
Kenneth Turan
#25. But facts obscure the truth, which is that writing prose doesn't make you a prose writer any more than philosophizing makes you a philosopher or fooling around makes you a fool.
Mark Forsyth
#26. The best and safest method of philosophizing seems to be first to inquire diligently into the properties of things, and establishing those properties by experiments, and then to proceed more slowly to hypotheses for the explanation of them.
Isaac Newton
#27. According to Bela Szabados, it can be dangerous to ignore philosophers' personalities because philosophizing is a personal interpretation of truth.
Skye Cleary
#28. Human beings have a physical need to tell themselves when at work: "Let's have done with it now," and it's having constantly to go on thinking in the face of this need when philosophizing that makes this work so strenuous.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#30. Lou asked point-blank, Can love last? (Rural people get to philosophizing, and will say anything.)
- Oh, darling! No, not that heart-thumping passion. Give that eighteen months. But it's replaced by something even better.
Lou waited.
- Lovers!
Annie Dillard
#31. Philosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
