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In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach.

The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other people's.

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.

There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.

When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.

Words, without power, is mere philosophy.

I have no philosophy, my favourite thing is sitting in the studio.

Gandhi became my role model. I have always been interested in Eastern philosophy. Since early in my life I've been fascinated by India, and I have spent a great deal of time traveling in that country.

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.

Contradiction was something I really like when it is embraced in that kind of philosophy.

Our whole philosophy is one of transparency.

The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.

The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding.

At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.

Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.

If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts.

As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.

Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul.

Philosophy is tested and characterised by the way in which it appropriates its history.