Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

Philosophy … consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

I'm taking a philosophy class and regretting it with everything in me. I'm taking one college class per semester. Philosophy is studying what you already know and dismantling it. I thought it would be right up my alley. I can't tell you how much it's not me.

Philosophy changes day by day.

Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

Whoever says he is starting from a given in nature may be right, and so is he who says he is starting from nothing!

First, philosophy concerns itself with all kinds of issues that don't get much airtime in day-to-day life. What's the nature of reality? Can we ever truly know anything, and if so, how? What does it mean to be a moral agent? And while we're at it, is there any such thing as agency anyway?

Since Plato, we have been considering the nature of knowledge, the meaning of meaning and the status of the physical world.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

I stick my finger into existence.. it smells of nothing. Where am I? Who am I? What is this thing called the world? What does this word mean?

I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it.

It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.

I discovered philosophy in my youth when I read 'wildly,' and thus I was exposed to the world of ideas.

I took all the philosophy courses I could.

Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.

Well, I don't know if I can comment on Kant or Hegel because I'm no real philosopher in the sense of knowing what these people have said in any detail so let me not comment on that too much.

Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.

Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.

You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.

Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!

To me, what philosophy does best is reflect on knowledge that's generated in other areas.

My personal philosophy is, you can be sure of nothing.

Philosophy begins in wonder.

Metaphysics is a science.