Then, Adeimantus, I said, the worthy disciples of philosophy will be but a small remnant: perchance some noble and well-educated person, detained by exile in her service, who in the absence of corrupting influences remains devoted to her; or some lofty soul born in a mean city, the politics of which he contemns and neglects; and there may be a gifted few who leave the arts, which they justly despise, and come to her;-or peradventure there are some who are restrained by our friend Theages' bridle; for everything in the life of Theages conspired to divert him from philosophy; but ill-health kept him away from politics.
"Plato's Republic"
Plato
The sophist may argue that age begets philosophy, and that philosophy contemns all worldly things; yet certain it is that the book-hunter, one of the most philosophical of beings, remains on the look-out for bargains to the very end of his career.
"The Book-Hunter at Home"
P. B. M. Allan
Thought triumphs over Nature and contemns it; Nature takes its revenge and swallows up thought in its abyss.
"Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History"
Auguste Sabatier