Edie Brickell Quotes

Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.

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

Are you a philosopher? Where's your sponge?

Philosophy, while it soothes the reason, damps the ambition.

Philosophy begins where religion ends, just as by analogy chemistry begins where alchemy runs out, and astronomy takes the place of astrology.

I see the beard and cloak, but I don't yet see a philosopher. -Video barbam et pallium; philosophum nondum video

Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them.

Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.

Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking--being awake--consciousness.

It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity.

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.

Nothing is too absurd to be said by some of the philosophers.

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

He could dismiss several schools of philosophy by shifting slightly in his chair or toting his whisky glass.

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

I'm interested in philosophy, I studied it, and I also admit I try to read things that are way above me. I have a limit: I take what I need from it, and I do find that some of my favourite philosophical writings tend to be poppier. I admire smart people who are able to describe things simply or in a human, readable way.

Philosophy will clip an angel's wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine - Unweave a rainbow.

Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.

Philosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any definite answers to its questions, since no definite answers can, as a rule, be known to be true, but rather for the sake of the questions themselves; because these questions enlarge our conception of what is possible, enrich our intellectual imagination and diminish the dogmatic assurance which closes the mind against speculation; but above all because, through the greatness of the universe which philosophy contemplates, the mind is also rendered great, and becomes capable of that union with the universe which constitutes its highest good.

The great question of philosophy remains: If life is meaningless, what can be done about alphabet soup?

I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that’s a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fellow isn’t insane. We are only doing philosophy.

Learning philosophy is learning a particular kind of intuitive understanding.

Is there a thinker apart from thought?

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

Philosophy is by its nature something esoteric, neither made for the mob nor capable of being prepared for the mob.