Imaginary Discussion Thread on: Philosophy

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
- Erich Fromm

What is it to be a philosopher? Is it not to be prepared against events?
- Epictetus

A philosophy is characterized more by the formulation of its problems than by the solution of them.
- Susanne K. Langer

Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.
- Montaigne

All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense; but some are greater nonsense than others.
- Samuel Butler

There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.
- Descartes

Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its trains of reasoning.
- Alfred North Whitehead

Ethical metaphysics is fundamentally an attempt, however disguised, to give legislative force to our own wishes.
- Bertrand Russell

To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
- Pascal

Every life is its own excuse for being.
- Elbert Hubbard

Being is the great explainer.
- Thoreau

The scholar seeks, the artist finds.
- Andre Gide