Verb
To reason like a philosopher; to search into the reason and nature of things; to investigate phenomena, and assign rational causes for their existence.
Source: Webster's dictionaryTo ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize. Blaise Pascal
Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist. Friedrich Schlegel
When people begin to philosophize they seem to think it necessary to make themselves artificially stupid. Bertrand Russell
To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe. Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Plato says a multitude can never philosophize and hence can never recognize the seriousness of philosophy or who really philosophizes. Attempting to influence the multitude results in forced prostitution. Allan Bloom
Wise men philosophize as the fools live on. Korean Proverb