The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

Henry Ward Beecher

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

Abraham Lincoln

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

William James

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

William Shakespeare

And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it.

John Donne

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Ludwig van Beethoven

In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad-Gita, in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seems puny and trivial.

Henry David Thoreau

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind – intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

D. H. Lawrence

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Khalil Gibran

Leisure is the mother of philosophy.

Thomas Hobbes