Ideal goals are a menace in themselves, as much in more modern philosophers as in Plato. — Moses Finley Copy Share Image
“For there was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
To a philosopher no circumstance, however trifling, is too minute. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I strongly believe that one of the best philosophies of life is to be your own philosopher. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Boredom is probably more frequent and more tormenting if you do not have sight or hands.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking. — William James Copy Share Image
A philosopher is a man who can look at an empty glass with a smile. — Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar 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
Contemporary philosophers, even the rationalistic minded ones, have on the whole agreed that no one has intelligibly banished the mystery of fact. — William James Copy Share Image
And Numenius, the Pythagorean philosopher, expressly writes: 'For what is Plato, but Moses speaking in Attic Greek.' — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
The British philosopher Bertrand Russell said that philosophy went downhill after Democritus and did not recover until the Renaissance. — Leon M. Lederman 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
Who lives as a citizen, may write as a philosopher - but write as a philosopher, it is to teach materialism! — Julien Offray de La Mettrie Copy Share Image
“Our endurance and suffering made us stronger than they can imagine. We became so strong that it takes only one of our… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
Philosophy is not one truth, but thousands of truths. You don't have to believe in just one thing. When you chose one… — Marcel Wanders 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
“Philosopher, orator, apostle, legislator, warrior, conqueror of ideas, restorer of rational dogmas, of a cult without images, the founder of twenty terrestrial… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
Don't say anything about this to anybody. Any one would say that I am trying to play the good-natured philosopher. I am… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
No man of sense in the whole world believes in devils any more than he does in mermaids, vampires, gorgons, hydras, naiads,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Our civilized world is nothing but a great masquerade. You encounter knights, parsons, soldiers, doctors, lawyers, priests, philosophers and a thousand more:… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“I am aware of many things being quite as important as good writing and good reading; but in all things it is… — Vladimir Nabokov 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
To a Mistress Dying Lover. YOUR beauty, ripe and calm and fresh As eastern summers are, Must now, forsaking time and flesh,… — William Davenant 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
“Arthur could not but be sensible, that not long since all this would have made him perfectly happy; but the last months… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
I have tried to read philosophers of all ages and have found many illuminating ideas but no steady progress toward deeper knowledge… — Max Born Copy Share Image
When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life. It means fear is no longer a dominant factor… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
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