| 162 | Can we understand an individual soul without knowing the soul in general? [Plato] |
| 326 | For relaxation one can consider the world of change, instead of eternal things [Plato] |
| 549 | All philosophy begins from wonder, either at the physical world, or at ideas [Aristotle] |
| 1798 | He studied philosophy by suspending his judgement on everything [Pyrrho, by Diog. Laertius] |
| 1771 | When shown seven versions of the mowing argument, he paid twice the asking price for them [Zeno of Citium, by Diog. Laertius] |
| 3600 | Slow and accurate thought makes the greatest progress [Descartes] |
| 17016 | Philosophy must abstract from the senses [Newton] |
| 8095 | We must think with our entire body and soul [Joubert] |
| 19583 | Philosophy only begins when it studies itself [Novalis] |
| 8927 | Philosophy moves essentially in the element of universality [Hegel] |
| 21916 | Philosophers can't be religious, and don't need to be; philosophy is perilous but free [Schopenhauer] |
| 7834 | Great philosophies are confessions by the author, growing out of moral intentions [Nietzsche] |
| 4424 | A warlike philosopher challenges problems to single combat [Nietzsche] |
| 7848 | Philosophy begins in the horror and absurdity of existence [Nietzsche, by Ansell Pearson] |
| 2909 | Thinking has to be learned in the way dancing has to be learned [Nietzsche] |
| 4520 | I don't want to persuade anyone to be a philosopher; they should be rare plants [Nietzsche] |
| 7846 | Nietzsche thinks philosophy makes us more profound, but not better [Nietzsche, by Ansell Pearson] |
| 22657 | All good philosophers start from a dumb conviction about which truths can be revealed [James] |
| 5361 | Philosophers must get used to absurdities [Russell] |
| 2937 | What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence [Wittgenstein] |
| 2626 | A philosopher is outside any community of ideas [Wittgenstein] |
| 20435 | If philosophy could be summarised it would be pointless [Adorno] |
| 21849 | Thought should be thrown like a stone from a war-machine [Deleuze] |
| 21887 | Derrida focuses on other philosophers, rather than on science [Derrida] |
| 3269 | If your life is to be meaningful as part of some large thing, the large thing must be meaningful [Nagel] |
| 3242 | Philosophy is the childhood of the intellect, and a culture can't skip it [Nagel] |
| 7973 | There is no longer anything on which there is nothing to say [Baudrillard] |
| 9786 | Philosophers working like teams of scientists is absurd, yet isolation is hard [Cartwright,R] |
| 3695 | Philosophy is a priori if it is anything [Bonjour] |
| 8220 | Philosophy is in a perpetual state of digression [Deleuze/Guattari] |
| 22519 | Philosophers are revealed by their fears [Billington] |
| 1606 | You have to be a Platonist to debate about reality, so every philosopher is a Platonist [Roochnik] |