Children are the only brave philosophers. And brave philosophers are, inevitably, children. — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
I was a poet animated by philosophy, not a philosopher with poetic faculties. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
With respect to ingenious subconsciousness, I think, philosophers might well rival poets. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Every child's bedroom is as important as a telescope orbiting the planet earth or a philosopher's study. — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
What verse is for the poet, dialectical thinking is for the philosopher. He grasps for it in order to get hold of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Some philosophers see into themselves, and some into their times; still others forge an alliance with the future. — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
When men abandon reason, physical force becomes their only means of dealing with one another and of settling disagreements. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Although according to certain philosophers it is quite difficult to distinguish the jester from the melancholic, life itself being a comic drama… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A pipe is a pocket philosopher,--a truer one than Socrates, for it never asks questions. Socrates must have been very tiresome, when… — Ouida Copy Share Image
“Being a philosopher, rather than a neophyte in sanctity, Mr. Gaul did not feel it at all incumbent upon him to refrain… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“I am very much aware of the fact that there would come people who would attempt to proclaim me being a reincarnation… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The photographer in Blow-Up, who is not a philosopher, wants to see things closer up. But it so happens that, by enlarging… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If the God of revelation is most appropriately worshipped in the temple of religion, the God of nature may be equally honored… — David Brewster Copy Share Image
When it was first said that the sun stood still and world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Many people have thought of me as a thinker, as a philosopher, or even as a mystic. Well the truth is that… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Yangi, a philosopher, art historian and poet, had evolved a theory of why some objects - pots, baskets, cloth made by unknown… — Edmund de Waal Copy Share Image
One of the great unresolved psychological enigmas of the modern western world is the question of what or who has persuaded us… — Philip Sherrard Copy Share Image
This work, though it deals only with eating and drinking, which are regarded in the eyes of our supernaturalistic mock-culture as the… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers. Each of us emerges… — Bryan Magee Copy Share Image
Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“[...] intellectualism (as understood by Fascists) divocers thought from action, science from life, the brain from the heart, and theory from practice.… — Giovanni Gentile Copy Share Image
I don't like realism. We already know the real facts about li[fe], most of the basic facts. I'm not interested in repeating… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
At one time, many philosophers held that faultless "laws of thought" were somehow inherent, a priori, in the very nature of mind.… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
Philosophers are as jealous as woman; each wants a monopoly of praise. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
If Socrates died like a philosopher, Jesus Christ died like a God. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“If you are not like me then you are not me. I am a great philosopher!” — Maher Osman Copy Share Image
Philosophy has a fine saying for everything.-For Death it has an entire set. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
“Ability does catches my attention, but its a politeness in the person that I remember.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Bad philosophers may have a certain influence; good philosophers, never. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is now no mystery that some quite influential philosophers were mentally ill. — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image