G. H. Hardy Quotes

The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.

One of the main reasons for the existence of philosophy is not that it enables you to find truth (it can never do that) but that it does provide you a refuge for definitions.

Philosophy, the love of Wisdom, is at the very bottom defence against the incomprehensible.

Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.

Philosophy, as the modern world knows it, is only intellectual club-swinging.

It was my first meeting with a philosophy that confirmed my vague speculations and seemed at once logical and boundless.

Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.

Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.

Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of.

Analytical philosophy was very interesting. It always struck me as being very interesting and full of tremendous intellectual curiosities. It is wonderful to see the mind at work in such an intense manner, but, for me, it was still too far removed from my own issues.

Philosophy is the rational expression of genius.

Philosophy ... bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.

Philosophy begins where religion ends, just as by analogy chemistry begins where alchemy runs out, and astronomy takes the place of astrology.

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

From my undergraduate days, I've always been interested in the major philosophical questions that don't seem to have an answer that everyone agrees on.

Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.

I'm taking a philosophy class and regretting it with everything in me. I'm taking one college class per semester. Philosophy is studying what you already know and dismantling it. I thought it would be right up my alley. I can't tell you how much it's not me.

You know, I've taught philosophy for years and one argues in the hypothetical all the time.

Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.

Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!

Young children are naturally so philosophical. They ask: 'What is real? What is truth?' They have to learn it; they don't automatically know it. To them, it's a game. You can study this for years in college, and yet you probably asked it when you were four or five years old.

Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didn't: It was basically a semantics game.

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

I was interested in philosophy before I knew I was. That's to say, when I was at school, I used to argue with my friends about issues that turned out to be philosophical ones of some kind.