Philosophers are only men in armour after all. 35 Dickens.
Philosophers call God "the great unknown." "The great misknown" would be more correct. Joseph Roux.
Philosophia simulari potest, eloquentia non potest—Philosophy may be feigned, eloquence cannot. Quinct.
Philosophy and theology are become theorem, brain-web and shadow, wherein no earnest soul can find solidity for itself. Shadow, I say; yet shadow projected from an everlasting reality within ourselves. Quit the shadow, seek the reality. Carlyle to John Sterling.
Philosophy can add to our happiness in no other manner but by diminishing our misery; it should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of. Goldsmith.
Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can 40 procure for us God, freedom, immortality. Which, then, is more practical—philosophy or economy? Novalis.
Philosophy does not regard pedigree; she did not receive Plato as a noble, but she made him so. Sen.
Philosophy dwells aloft in the Temple of Science, the divinity of its inmost shrine; her dictates descend among men, but she herself descends not; whoso would behold her must climb with long and laborious effort, nay, still linger in the forecourt, till manifold trial have proved him worthy of admission into the interior solemnities. Carlyle.
Philosophy easily triumphs over past and future ills, but present ills triumph over philosophy. La Roche.
Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve. Froude.