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September 29, 2008 by kevinstilley

Philosophy – select quotes

It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s mind about to religion.
~ Francis Bacon

Of all the gifts of the gods to the human race, philosophy is the richest, the most beautiful, the most exalted.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero, in De Legibus

Philosophy is the best medicine for the mind.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

I believe Plato and Socrates. I believe in Jesus Christ.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

If you would enjoy real freedom, you must be the slave of philosophy.
~ Epicurus

Leisure is the mother of philosophy.
~ Thomas Hobbes, in Leviathan, pt. 1, ch. 1

Postremo nemo aegrotus quidquam somniat tam infandum, quod non aliquis dicat philosophus. [In short, no sick man has ever dreamed of anything so absurd that one or another philosopher has not said it.]
~ Marcus Terentius Varro

The most important thought I ever had was that of my individual responsibility to God.
~ Daniel Webster

Philosophy consists largely of one philosopher arguing that all the others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.
~ H. L. Mencken

A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn’t there. A theologian is the man who finds it.
~ H.L. Mencken

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