More and more mankind will discover that we have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us.Without poetry, our science will appear incomplete; and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry.

-Arnold, Matthew
  Essays in Criticism Second Series,'The Study of Poetry'.

But if science may be said to be blind without philosophy, it is true also that philosophy is virtually empty without science.

-Ayer, SirAlfred Jules
  Language, Truth and Logic, ch.8.

All good moral philosophy is but an handmaid to religion.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  The Advancement of Learning, bk.2, ch.22, section14.

Those who have handled scienceshave been either men of experiment or men of dogmas. The men of experiment are like the ant; they only collect and use; thereasonersresemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance.But the bee takes a middle course; it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests by a power of its own. Not unlike this is the true business of philosophy.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Novum Organum bk.1, aphorism 95.

It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth Man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. See Berkeley 79:7. 48

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Essays, no.9 'Of  Atheism'.

Historiesmakemenwise; poets, witty; themathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Essays, no.50,'Of Studies'.

Not philosophy, after all, not humanity, just sheer joyous power of song, is the primal thing in poetry.

-Beerbohm, Sir (Henry) Max(imilian)
  And Even Now,'The Pines'.

Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Colossians 2:8.

Philosophy, n. A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

-Bierce, Ambrose Gwinett
  The Cynic's Word Book. Retitled  The Devil's Dictionary (1911).

To believe only in possibilities, is not faith, but mere Philosophy.

-Browne, SirThomas
^5  Religio Medici (published1643), pt.1, section 48.

History is philosophy teaching by experience.

-Carlyle,Thomas
  Critical and Miscellaneous Essays,'History'.

Virtue's no more in womankind But the green sickness of the mind. Philosophy, their new delight, A kind of charcoal appetite.

-Cleveland,John
  'The  Antiplatonic'.

Les passions de¤  truisent plus de pre¤  juge¤  s que la philosophie. Et comment le mensonge leur re¤  sisterait-il? Elles e¤  branlent quelquefois la ve¤  rite¤  . Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy. And how would lies resist passions? Passions sometimes weaken the truth.

-Diderot, Denis
  Entretiens sur le fils naturel, pt.2.

Les beaute¤  s ont, dans les arts, le me"  me fondement que les ve¤  rite¤  s dans la philosophie.Qu'est-ce que la ve¤  rite¤  ? La conformite¤   de nos jugements avec les e"  tres. Qu'est-ce que la beaute¤   d'imitation? La conformite¤   de l'image avec la chose. Beauty has in art the same foundation as does truth in philosophy. What is the truth? The conformity of our judgements with beings. What is the beauty of imitation? The conformity of the image with the thing.

-Diderot, Denis
  Entretiens sur le fils naturel, pt.3.

And new philosophy calls all in doubt, The element of fire is quite put out; The sun is lost, and th'earth, and no man's wit Can well direct him, where to look for it.

-Donne,John
  'An  Anatomy of the World: The First  Anniversary'.

   Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, tobe faced with philosophyand investigated by science.

-Eliot, George pseudonym of  MaryAnn Evans
^2  Middlemarch, bk.1, ch.11.

Nice philosophy May tolerate unlikelyarguments, But heaven admits no jest.

-Ford,John
  ' Tis Pity She's a Whore, act1, sc.1.

Why it was that upon this beautiful feminine tissue, sensitive as gossamer, and practically blank as snow as yet, there should have been traced such a coarse pattern as it was doomed to receive; why so often the coarse appropriates the finer thus, the wrong man the woman, the wrong woman the man, many thousand years of analytical philosophy have failed to explain to our sense of order.

-Hardy,Thomas
Tess of the D'Urbervilles, ch.11.

The philosophy which isso important in each of us isnot a technical matter; it is our more or less dumb sense of what life honestly and deeply means† it is our individual way of just seeing and feeling the total push and pressure of the cosmos.

-James,William
  Pragmatism, lecture1.

Eben darin Philosophie besteht, seine Grenzen zu kennen. It is precisely in knowing its limits that philosophy consists.

-Kant, Immanuel
Kritik der reinen Vernunft (Critique of Pure Reason), B755 (translated by N Kemp Smith).