“The true philosopher lives his life as a dress rehearsal for death.” — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Most contemporary philosophers are conservative and eager to keep their jobs. — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
The act of philosophizing involves the character of the philosopher. — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
“In reality most human beings are not, to most human beings, more important than money.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The continual pursuit of meanings-wider, clearer, more negotiable, more articulate meanings- is philosophy. — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“To live alone one must be either a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be… — Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm Copy Share Image
Philosophy will clip an angel's wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine - Unweave… — John Keats Copy Share Image
“When a philosopher wants high ceilings, he goes outside'. He doesn't buy an oversize house that requires massive amounts of dwindling resources… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
If your divines are not philosophers, your philosophy will neither be divine, nor able to divine. — Julius Charles Hare Copy Share Image
“Some of us were brought into this troubled world primarily or only to increase our fathers’ chances of not being left by… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
But of all nations in the world the English are perhaps the least a nation of pure philosophers. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
In his essay, ‘Perpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Contentment produces, in some measure, all those effects which the alchemist usually ascribes to what he calls the philosopher's stone; and if… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
But, after all, the sciences have made progress, because philosophers have applied themselves with more attention to observe, and have communicated to… — Etienne Bonnot de Condillac Copy Share Image
It appears that the solution of the problem of time and space is reserved to philosophers who, like Leibniz, are mathematicians, or… — Hans Reichenbach Copy Share Image
The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able… — John Muir Copy Share Image
The huge majority of philosophers seem to think that including impure properties in the range of the quantifiers of the principle would… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Copy Share Image
A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself. When you are a child your vessel… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“The philosopher seeks a generality beyond the boundaries of science; he attempts to frame a comprehensive and coherent framework of ideas within… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
O sweet spontaneous earth how often have the doting fingers of prurient philosophers pinched and poked thee ,has the naughty thumb of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Only philosophers embark on this perilous expedition to the outermost reaches of language and existence. Some of them fall off, but others… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“The world is a lively place enough, in which we must accommodate ourselves to circumstances, sail with the stream as glibly as… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I was trained as a philosopher never to put philosophers and their ideas into historical contexts, since historical context has nothing to… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
I have studied the enemy all my life. I have read the memoirs of his generals and his leaders. I have even… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
More and more it seems to me that the philosopher, being of necessity a man of tomorrow and the day after tomorrow,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Dance is that delicacy of life radiating every particle of our existence with happiness.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
A State would be happy where philosophers were kings, or kings philosophers. — Plato Copy Share Image
If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers. — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
