Muhlenberg college

"Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder."

--Plato

“Without philosophy thoughts are, as it were, cloudy and indistinct: its task is to make them clear and to give them sharp boundaries."

--Ludwig Wittgenstein

“I would not think that philosophy and reason themselves will be man's guide in the foreseeable future; however, they will remain the most beautiful sanctuary they have always been for the select few”

--Albert Einstein

“Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.”

--Confucius

"The discovery of what is true, and the practice of that which is good, are the two most important objects of philosophy."

--Voltaire

"Philosophy, … sees the familiar as if it were strange, and the strange as if it were familiar. .. It rouses us from our native dogmatic slumber and breaks up our caked prejudices....A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates."

--William James

“On the one hand, philosophy is to keep us thinking about things that we may come to know, and, on the other hand, to keep us modestly aware of how much that seems like knowledge isn't knowledge.”

--Bertrand Russell

"Of all the gifts of God to the human race, philosophy is the richest, the most beautiful, the most exalted."

--Cicero