A Quote by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
German - Poet
March 10, 1772 - January 12, 1829

Philosophy - reduced, as we have seen, to philosophical discourse - develops from this point on in a different atmosphere and environment from that of ancient philosophy. In modern university philosophy, philosophy is obviously no longer a way of life, or a form of life - unless it be the form of life of a professor of philosophy.

Pierre Hadot

Aphorisms are not true or false, but pointed or flat.

Mason Cooley

The very hope of experimental philosophy, its expectation of constructing the sciences into a true philosophy of nature, is basedon induction, or, if you please, the a priori presumption, that physical causation is universal; that the constitution of nature is written in its actual manifestations, and needs only to be deciphered by experimental and inductive research; that it is not a latent invisible writing, to be brought out by the magic of mental anticipation or metaphysical mediation.

Chauncey Wright

But, as I understand it, your God is a universal God; He is God on all suns and all planets. Surely, then, He must have universal form? Would it not be a staggering vanity to imagine that He can manifest Himself only in the form that is appropriate to this particular, not very important planet?

John Wyndham

Hillary Clinton appears to believe in a form of stoicism - which is a tried and true life philosophy.

Christina Hoff Sommers

As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.

Karl Jaspers

Philosophy is the science of estimating values. The superiority of any state or substance over another is determined by philosophy. By assigning a position of primary importance to what remains when all that is secondary has been removed, philosophy thus becomes the true index of priority or emphasis in the realm of speculative thought.

Manly Hall

I do not presume that I have found the best philosophy, I know that I understand the true philosophy.

Baruch Spinoza

My personal goal was to get back to my true form, and my true form is an All-Star player.

Larry Johnson

Mys philosophy toward art is true to my time, true to my dream, and true to myself.

Michael Chow

According to the universal laws, the magician will form his own point of view about the universe which henceforth will be his true religion.

Franz Bardon

Maxims and aphorisms, let us remember that wisdom is the true salt of literature, and the books that are most nourishing are richly stored with it, and that is the main object to seek in reading books.

John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn

Philosophy means thinking things out for oneself. Ultimately, there can be only one true philosophy, since reason is one and we all live in the same world.

William Ralph Inge

Philosophy will not be able to effect an immediate transformation of the present condition of the world. This is not only true of philosophy, but of all merely human thought and endeavor.

Martin Heidegger

Some of my understanding of what philosophy and ethics is has changed very slowly. One thing that has changed is this for quite a long time I bought-into the idea that philosophy is basically about arguments. I'm increasingly of the view that it isn't. The most interesting things in philosophy aren't arguments. The thing that I think is underestimated is what I call a form of attending. I think that philosophy is at least as much about carefully attending to things as it is about the structure of arguments.