Iris Murdoch Quotes

About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.

I was interested in philosophy before I knew I was. That's to say, when I was at school, I used to argue with my friends about issues that turned out to be philosophical ones of some kind.

Philosophy teaches you to think big.

Philosophy has its bugbears, as well as superstition.

Philosophy is the rational expression of genius.

Philosophy, the love of Wisdom, is at the very bottom defence against the incomprehensible.

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.

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

Philosophy wasn't about facts, it was about ideas. My first essay title was something like: 'How can you know what other people are thinking?' I thought, 'Wow, what an amazing thing.' I really thought deeply for the first time.

Philosophy changes day by day.

I'd love to go back to school for philosophy. I love philosophy, so I'm always reading philosophy books, annoying my girlfriend with that type of stuff.

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.

Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us.

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

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

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

Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didn't: It was basically a semantics game.

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

Every single university student should study philosophy. You need to lead the examined life and question your beliefs. If you don't learn critical thinking, then political debate degenerates into a contest of slogans.

Philosophy is the product of wonder. The effort after the general characterization of the world around us is the romance of human thought.

Philosophy, as the modern world knows it, is only intellectual club-swinging.

It was my first meeting with a philosophy that confirmed my vague speculations and seemed at once logical and boundless.

Philosophy's position with regard to science, which at one time could be designated with the name "theory of knowledge," has been undermined by the movement of philosophical thought itself. Philosophy was dislodged from this position by philosophy.

The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.