Philosopher Quotes

Your dog is your only philosopher.

— Plato

“In the end, only the truth will survive.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

A dog has the soul of a philosopher.

— Plato

You're like a philosopher with tattoos.

— J.A. Redmerski

“Need doesn't care about being sensible.”

— Amit Kalantri

Snoopy was a philosopher in a way.

— Alessandro Michele

Simplify, simplify, simplify.

— Henry David Thoreau

Are you a philosopher? Where's your sponge?

— Terry Pratchett

“Spirit is a child, the tune of dancing feet its lullaby.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I am a monk at heart - a scientist at brain - a philosopher at conscience.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Joy comes not through possession or ownership but through a wise and loving heart.

— Gautama Buddha

I leaf through the ancient philosophers and find my newest discoveries there.

— Anonymous

It may be argued that peoples for whom philosophers legislate are always prosperous.

— Aristotle

Kings and philosophers defecate, and so do ladies.

— Michel de Montaigne

Woman's nudity is wiser than the philosopher's teachings.

— Max Ernst

Some philosophers see into themselves, and some into their times; still others forge an alliance with the future.

— David Berlinski

When men abandon reason, physical force becomes their only means of dealing with one another and of settling disagreements.

— Ayn Rand

Although according to certain philosophers it is quite difficult to distinguish the jester from the melancholic, life itself being a comic drama…

— Anonymous

A pipe is a pocket philosopher,--a truer one than Socrates, for it never asks questions. Socrates must have been very tiresome, when…

— Ouida

A philosopher of imposing stature doesn't think in a vacuum. Even his most abstract ideas are, to some extent, conditioned by what…

— Alfred North Whitehead

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided…

— Oliver Goldsmith

“When I read, I was a philosopher and it was up to me to figure out the meaning of things. Reading made…

— Heather O'Neill

Every child's bedroom is as important as a telescope orbiting the planet earth or a philosopher's study.

— Jerry Spinelli

It was a strange man, a kind of black humorist, a true philosopher. One day he said: "If my books could ensure…

— William C. Brown

If the God of revelation is most appropriately worshipped in the temple of religion, the God of nature may be equally honored…

— David Brewster

When it was first said that the sun stood still and world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine…

— Charles Darwin

Upon the whole, I am inclined to think that the far greater part, if not all, of those difficulties which have hitherto…

— George Berkeley

I had a friend in college who loved to say: 'If you can dream it, you can do it.' It became my…

— Michele Gorman

The Indian philosopher J. Krishnamurti once remarked that observing without evaluating is the highest form of human intelligence. When I first read…

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

Just look at life with more playful eyes. Don't be serious. Seriousness becomes like a blindness. Don't pretend to be a thinker,…

— Rajneesh

Mystical experiences (unlike scientific conclusions) cannot be communicated from one person to another. Philosophers and little children are continually amazed that we,…

— Sam Keen

O sweet spontaneous earth how often have the doting fingers of prurient philosophers pinched and poked thee ,has the naughty thumb of…

— Anonymous

“The reason why most of our plans fail it is because when people are giving us a hand in what we do.…

— De philosopher DJ Kyos

Only philosophers embark on this perilous expedition to the outermost reaches of language and existence. Some of them fall off, but others…

— Jostein Gaarder

“If I now consider man in his isolated capacity, I find that dogmatic belief is no less indispensable to him in order…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“I had noticed also that Queequeg never consorted at all, or but very little, with the other seamen in the inn. He…

— Herman Melville

“A philosopher/mathematician named Bertrand Russell who lived and died in the same century as Gass once wrote: “Language serves not only to…

— Dan Simmons

To change man, the audience by which he judges himself must be changed. A man is defined by his audience: by the…

— Luke Rhinehart

The policy of the emperors and the senate, as far as it concerned religion, was happily seconded by the reflections of the…

— Edward Gibbon