Philosophers and Philosophy

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"Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems." - Henry Brooks Adams

"The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatures are the willing playthings; he is less duped than his neighbor by his own nature. He judges more sanely, he sees things as they are. It is in this that his liberty consists -- in the ability to see clearly and soberly, in the power of mental record." - Henri Frederic Amiel

"Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder." - St. Thomas Aquinas

"The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful." - Sir Alfred Jules Ayer

"We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do." - Francis Bacon

"In it he proves that all things are true and states how the truths of all contradictions may be reconciled physically, such as for example that white is black and black is white; that one can be and not be at the same time; that there can be hills without valleys; that nothingness is something and that everything, which is, is not. But take note that he proves all these unheard-of paradoxes without any fallacious or sophistical reasoning." - Savinien Cyrano De Bergerac

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