| 6321 | Vulgar people are alert; I alone am muddled [Laozi (Lao Tzu)] |
| 5863 | Reason is eternal, but men are foolish [Heraclitus] |
| 9283 | Our ancient beliefs can never be overthrown by subtle arguments [Euripides] |
| 125 | Is a gifted philosopher unmanly if he avoids the strife of the communal world? [Plato] |
| 2056 | Philosophers are always switching direction to something more interesting [Plato] |
| 112 | Most people are readier to submit to compulsion than to argument [Aristotle] |
| 7281 | Don't even start, let's just stay put [Zhuangzi (Chuang Tzu)] |
| 8138 | Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy [Paul] |
| 23766 | Don't be tossed to and fro with every wind of doctrine, by cunning deceptive men [Paul] |
| 6814 | Instead of prayer and charity, sinners pursue vain disputes and want their own personal scripture [Mohammed] |
| 8658 | For there was never yet philosopher/ That could endure the toothache patiently [Shakespeare] |
| 6602 | Philosophy is like a statue which is worshipped but never advances [Bacon] |
| 24032 | Clever scholars can obscure things which are obvious even to peasants [Descartes] |
| 3601 | Most things in human life seem vain and useless [Descartes] |
| 3602 | Almost every daft idea has been expressed by some philosopher [Descartes] |
| 2196 | The observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy [Hume] |
| 5635 | In ordinary life the highest philosophy is no better than common understanding [Kant] |
| 22087 | Philosophy fails to articulate the continual becoming of existence [Kierkegaard, by Carlisle] |
| 20256 | What we think is totally dictated by the language available to express it [Nietzsche] |
| 14854 | Deep thinkers know that they are always wrong [Nietzsche] |
| 7167 | Words such as 'I' and 'do' and 'done to' are placed at the point where our ignorance begins [Nietzsche] |
| 7196 | Pessimism is laughable, because the world cannot be evaluated [Nietzsche] |
| 7137 | Is a 'philosopher' now impossible, because knowledge is too vast for an overview? [Nietzsche] |
| 14876 | Philosophy is always secondary, because it cannot support a popular culture [Nietzsche] |
| 14878 | It would better if there was no thought [Nietzsche] |
| 14881 | Why do people want philosophers? [Nietzsche] |
| 20107 | How many mediocre thinkers are occupied with influential problems! [Nietzsche] |
| 21572 | Philosophical disputes are mostly hopeless, because philosophers don't understand each other [Russell] |
| 18710 | Philosophers express puzzlement, but don't clearly state the puzzle [Wittgenstein] |
| 4148 | What is your aim in philosophy? - To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle [Wittgenstein] |
| 9810 | The 'Tractatus' is a masterpiece of anti-philosophy [Badiou on Wittgenstein] |
| 23459 | This work solves all the main problems, but that has little value [Wittgenstein] |
| 23512 | Once you understand my book you will see that it is nonsensical [Wittgenstein] |
| 19618 | I abandoned philosophy because it didn't acknowledge melancholy and human weakness [Cioran] |
| 19621 | Originality in philosophy is just the invention of terms [Cioran] |
| 19607 | The mind is superficial, only concerned with the arrangement of events, not their significance [Cioran] |
| 9245 | To an absurd mind reason is useless, and there is nothing beyond reason [Camus] |
| 15970 | People generalise because it is easier to understand, and that is mistaken for deep philosophy [Feynman] |
| 21893 | Philosophy is necessarily metaphorical, and its writing is aesthetic [Derrida] |
| 19090 | If we can't check our language against experience, philosophy is just comparing beliefs and words [Rorty] |
| 8047 | Philosophy has been marginalised by its failure in the Enlightenment to replace religion [MacIntyre] |
| 12772 | Philosophy is a value- and attitude-driven enterprise [Fraassen] |
| 2956 | There is nothing so obvious that a philosopher cannot be found to deny it [Lockwood] |
| 9208 | Philosophers with a new concept are like children with a new toy [Fine,K] |
| 18494 | Using a technical vocabulary actually prevents discussion of the presuppositions [Heil] |
| 16227 | Philosophers are good at denying the obvious [Hawley] |
| 9271 | Human knowledge may not produce well-being; the examined life may not be worth living [Gray] |
| 6575 | Philosophy may never find foundations, and may undermine our lives in the process [Fogelin] |