Quotes about philosophy

I do not have much liking for the too famous existential philosophy, and, to tell the truth, I think its conclusions false.

In every rebellion is to be found the metaphysical demand for unity, the impossibility of capturing it, and the construction of a substitute universe.

Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.

But voice is a certain sound of that which is animated; for nothing inanimate emits a voice; but they are said to emit a voice from similitude, as a pipe, and a lyre, and such other inanimate things, have extension, modulation, and dialect; for thus it appears, because voice, also, has these.