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{{Quotation| Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.|[[Plato]]|[[Theaetetus (dialogue)|Theaetetus]]'', 155}}
{{Quotation| Philosophy is that which grasps its own era in thought.| [[Hegel]]| Elements of the Philosophy of Rights; 1821}}
{{Quotation|The philosophers have only '''interpreted''' the world in various ways; the point, however, is to '''change''' it| [[Karl Marx]]|Theses on Feuerbach, 1845)}}
{{Quotation|"The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as to seem not worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it." |[[Bertrand Russell, quoted by John D. Barrow]]|Pi in the Sky, 1992, p. 188}}
{{Quotation|The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a theory but an activity. A philosophical work consists essentially of elucidations. The result of philosophy is not a number of ‘philosophical propositions’, but to make propositions clear. Philosophy should make clear and delimit sharply the thoughts which otherwise are, as it were, opaque and blurred.|[[Ludwig Wittgenstein]]|[[Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus]]'', 4.112'}}
{{Quotation|... [philosophers] are not honest enough in their work, although they make a lot of virtuous noise when the problem of truthfulness is touched even remotely. They all pose as if they had discovered and reached their real opinions through the self-development of a cold, pure, divinely unconcerned dialectic...; while at bottom it is an assumption, a hunch, indeed a kind of “inspiration”—most often a desire of the heart that has been filtered and made abstract—that they defend with reasons they have sought after the fact.|[[Friedrich Nietzsche]]|[[Beyond Good and Evil]]'', Part One: On the Prejudices of Philosophers, §5'}}
{{Quotation|To grasp the limits of reason – only ''this'' is truly philosophy.|[[Friedrich Nietzsche]]| [[The Antichrist (book)]]'', §55}}
{{Quotation|Philosophy, being nothing but the study of wisdom and truth...|[[George Berkeley]]|[[Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge|A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge]]'', Introduction, §1'}}
{{Quotation|... [that] philosophy...is nothing but a copy and a reflection of nature, and adds nothing of its own, but is merely a repetition and echo.|[[Francis Bacon]]|The Enlargement of Science'', 1. 2, ch. 3'}}
{{Quotation|To repeat abstractly, universally, and distinctly in [[concept]]s the whole inner nature of the [[world]], and thus to deposit it as a reflected image in permanent concepts always ready for the faculty of [[reason]], this and nothing else is philosophy.|[[Arthur Schopenhauer]]|[[The World as Will and Representation]]'', Vol. I, §68'}}
