“If you opened the dictionary and searched for the meaning of a Goddess, you would find the reflection of a dancing lady.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
And that, in a way, was the burden of being a philosopher: one knew what one had to do, but it was… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
In order to be a really good investor, you need to be a little bit of a philosopher as well. — Daniel S. Loeb Copy Share Image
If a philosopher answers your question, you will no longer understand what you asked in the first place — Hussein Nishah Copy Share Image
No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For us scientists, on the other wing, life is not quite so simple. Because we learn the unknown. Unlike, hah-hah, our esteemed… — Ken MacLeod Copy Share Image
This man has conquered the world! What have you done?" The philosopher replied without an instant's hesitation, "I have conquered the need… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
...To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein once remarked that if you ask a man how much is two plus two and he tells you… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
Symbols and emblems were everywhere. Buildings and pictures were designed to be read like books. Everything stood for something else; if you… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
And usually [the philosopher] philosophizes either in order to resign himself to life, or to seek some finality in it, or to… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Earnshaw was not to be civilized with a wish, and my young lady was no philosopher, and no paragon of patience; but… — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
The great philosophers of the past who wrote so beautifully - Rousseau, John Stuart Mill - had to write beautifully because they… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
In regard to the philosophers, if they be true philosophers, i.e., lovers of truth, they should not be irritated that the earth… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Each one of us pray, day and night, for the downtrodden millions in India, who are held fast by poverty, priest craft,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
When the boy begins to understand that the visible point is preceded by an invisible point, that the shortest distance between two… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Descartes' Meditations; doubt rise and results in clear and distinct ideas. all in the mind and all innate. Spinoza bakes the best… — Aporva Kala Copy Share Image
The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatures… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of the philosopher, and laughed over… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I spent on the Other Earth many "other years," wandering from mind to mind and country to country, but I did not… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
Some philosophers are drawn to the subject [of philosophy] via their interest in the nature and structure of the world external to… — Jason Stanley Copy Share Image
A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It's no use trying to talk philosophy to our politicians. And I'm not a moral or political philosopher. I'm not interested in… — Marjorie Grene Copy Share Image
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. — Socrates Copy Share Image
“This seems plainly absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities. One” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is good to renew one's wonder, said the philosopher. Space travel has again made children of us all. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
A great philosopher in the wrong is like a beacon on the reefs which says to seamen: steer clear of me. — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
“Although they probably know that some children were used and some children are used as miners, most adults are ignorant of the… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Being a professional philosopher is, I would say, feeling natural to think about small and great problems. It is the only pleasure. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light because they are so… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The true philosopher does not demonstrate; he shows and says nothing to those who don't understand. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
“When a dancer performs, melody transforms into a carriage, expressions turn into fuel and spirit experiences a journey to a world where… — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
Saints cannot arise where there have been no warriors, nor philosophers where a prying beast does not remain hidden in the depths. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
If true happiness depended on the thoughts of man, then all philosophers and deep thinkers would be filled to overflowing with it. — Sadhu Sundar Singh Copy Share Image
If I had my way there would be a philosopher sitting round the table on every committee and in every boardroom. — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
If what charms you is nothing but abstract principles, sit down and turn them over quietly in your mind: but never dub… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
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