Philosophy has given several plausible rules 45 for attaining peace and tranquillity, but they fall very much short of bringing men to it. Tillotson.
Philosophy is a bully that talks very loud when the danger is at a distance; but the moment she is hard pressed by the enemy, she is not to be found at her post, but leaves the brunt of the battle to be borne by her humbler but steadier comrade, Religion. Colton.
Philosophy is a good horse in a stable, but an arrant jade on a journey. Goldsmith.
Philosophy is an elegant thing, if any one modestly meddles with it; but, if he is conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts the man. Plato.
Philosophy is but a continual battle against custom; an ever-renewed effort to transcend the sphere of blind custom, and so become transcendental. Carlyle.
Philosophy is no more than the art of making ourselves happy; that is, of seeking pleasure in regularity, and reconciling what we owe to society with what is due to ourselves. Goldsmith.
Philosophy is nothing but discretion. Selden. 5
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home. Novalis.
Philosophy is reason with the eyes of the soul. Simms.
Philosophy is to poetry what old age is to youth; and the stern truths of philosophy are as fatal to the fictions of the one as the chilling testimonies of experience are to the hopes of the other. Colton.