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A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

Sublime Philosophy! Thou art the patriarch's ladder, reaching heaven; And bright with beckoning angels--but alas! We see thee like the patriarch, but in dreams, By the first step,--dull slumbering on the earth.

Beside, he was a shrewd philosopher, And had read ev'ry text and gloss over Whate'er the crabbed'st author hath, He understood b' implicit faith.

Before philosophy can teach by Experience, the Philosophy has to be in readiness, the Experience must be gathered and intelligibly recorded.

O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee? Thou hast produced cities; thou hast called men scattered about into the social enjoyment of life.

The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.

The Beginning of Philosophy . . . is a Consciousness of your own Weakness and inability in necessary things.

Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.

This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.

How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh, and crabbed, as full fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.

That stone, . . . Philosophers in vain so long have sought.

To ridicule philosophy is truly philosophical.

Philosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines.

Philosophy is nothing but Discretion.

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

I'll give thee armor to keep off that word; Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy, To comfort thee, though thou art banished.

The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.

Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers.

Why should not grave Philosophy be styled. Herself, a dreamer of a kindred stock, A dreamer, yet more spiritless and dull?

The bosom-weight, your stubborn gift, That no philosophy can lift.