Many modern philosophers claim that probability is relation between an hypothesis and the evidence for it. — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
Philosophers are often like little children, who first scribble random lines on a piece of paper with their pencils, and now ask… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
A philosopher once noted that people long for immortality but run out of things to do on a rainy afternoon. — David Niven Copy Share Image
No sceptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot afternoon. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I don’t know where being a servant came into disrepute. It is the refuge of a philosopher, the food of the lazy,… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Three things have a limited threshold: Time, pain, and death. While truth, love, and knowledge – Are boundless.” — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
All are sure in their days except the most wise ... He is the wisest philosopher who holds his theory with some doubt. — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
Bertrand Russell started off as a mathematician and then degenerated into a philosopher and finally into a humanist; he went downhill rapidly! — Gregory Chaitin Copy Share Image
Mathematicians have sought knowledge in figures, Philosophers in systems, Logicians in subtleties, and Metaphysicians in sounds. It is not in any nor… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is almost a rule that the more complex a man is, the simpler his billing. A person with a retrospective ability… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Pagan philosophers set up reason as the sole guide of life, of wisdom and conduct; but Christian philosophy demands of us that… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
My doctor said to me afterwards, 'When you were ill you behaved like a true philosopher. Every time you came to yourself… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The Street Epistemologist is a philosopher and a fighter. She has savvy and street smarts that come from the school of hard… — Peter Boghossian Copy Share Image
As long as I have the talent and there's a demand for the old Chinese man - whether he's a philosopher, or… — James Hong Copy Share Image
“Most sane human beings who are over the age of six usually act or react not as per what they genuinely feel… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
To me personally the only function of philosophy is to teach us to take life more lightly and gayly than the average… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
It is not ignoble to feel that the fuller life which a sad experience has brought us is worth our personal share… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“This time she wasn't facing racial cleansing that aimed to create physical perfection, size and color to achieve purity. Now it was… — Armando Lucas Correa Copy Share Image
Good Lord, I don't know what 'rights' a man has! And I don't know the solution of boredom. If I did, I'd… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
The philosopher ... subjects experience to his critical judgment, and this contains a value judgment namely, that freedom from toil is preferable… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
A person of your century: Great persons are of their time. Not all were born into a period worthy of them, and… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Philosophers get attention only when they appear to be doing something sinister--corrupting the youth, undermining the foundations of civilization, sneering at all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Philosophy is different from science and from mathematics. Unlike science it doesn't rely on experiments or observation, but only on thought. And… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
The denial of any distinction between foreseen and intended consequences, as far as responsibility is concerned, was not made by Sidgwick in… — G. E. M. Anscombe Copy Share Image
The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Einstein, my upset stomach hates your theory [of General Relativity]—it almost hates you yourself! How am I to' provide for my students?… — Paul Ehrenfest Copy Share Image
I am no metaphysician, no philosopher, nay, no saint. But I am poor and I love the poor. I see what they… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The technology [semiconductors] which has transformed practical existence is largely an application of what was discovered by these allegedly irresponsible [natural] philosophers. — Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Copy Share Image
The classifications made by philosophers and psychologists are like trying to classify clouds by their shape. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Moralists and philosophers have adjudged those who throw temptation in the way of the erring, equally guilty with those who are thereby… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
What a pity that 'nothingness' has been devalued by an abuse of it made by philosophers unworthy of it! — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“The Fur Person learned then and there that it is better to be a philosopher than to be a king and that,… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
What I understand by "philosopher": a terrible explosive in the presence of which everything is in danger. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“He was a philosopher, if you know what that was.’ ‘A man who dreams of fewer things than there are in heaven… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Courage is the enabling virtue for any philosopher - for any human being, I think, in the end. Courage to think, courage… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I mean it as a compliment when I say that you could almost define a philosopher as someone who won't take common… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Indeed, the distribution of wealth is too important an issue to be left to economists, sociologists, historians, and philosophers. — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
I think a lot of philosophers get so absorbed and distracted from the real matters of the world that they get lost… — Pam Gems Copy Share Image
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