I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.
—Charles Schulz
Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else. Songs like "Let Me Rest on a Peaceful Mountain" or "I Saw the Light"—that's my religion. I don't adhere to rabbis, preachers, evangelists, all of that.… The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs.
—Bob Dylan
It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.
—Leo Tolstoy
Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
—Frank Lloyd Wright
Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts lead us back to God.
—Francis Bacon
By all means marry: if you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
—Socrates
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
—Bertrand Russell
This is patently absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
—Bertrand Russell
There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.
—Cicero
Who you are isn't tied solely to what you say, even though it may feel that way to you now.
—Diane Ackerman
Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.
—H. L. Mencken
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein
One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.
—Rene Descartes
All philosophies, if you ride them, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
—Samuel Butler
Leisure is the mother of philosophy.
—Thomas Hobbes