For a courageous man cannot die dishonorably, a man who has attained the consulship cannot die before his time, a philosopher cannot… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The definition of a philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black hat, which isn’t really there.… — Michael Ruse Copy Share Image
I've always argued that it is just as desirable, just as possible, to have philosopher plumbers as philosopher kings. — Edith Green Copy Share Image
Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
In fact, of course, I hold that propositions that contemporary philosophers would properly count as 'empirical' can be necessary and be known… — Saul Kripke Copy Share Image
A German philosopher once wrote that he who fights monsters must take care that he doesn't become one himself. — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
The duty of a philosopher is clear. He must take every pain to ascertain the truth; and, having arrived at a conclusion,… — Henry Thomas Buckle Copy Share Image
The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the insoluble problems in all their insolubility and then in simply contemplating them,… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
We're in a post-conceptual era where it's really the artist's idea and vision that are prized rather than the ability to master… — Jeffrey Deitch Copy Share Image
“Rationalism is imperative in the pursuit of truth, whereas the pursuit of a harmonious global progress demands a human to be simply… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
It is told of Faraday that he refused to be called a physicist; he very much disliked the new name as being… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
As a Roman philosopher, Cicero, said of him a few hundred years later, Socrates 'called philosophy down from the sky and established… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“I was introduced to Mr. Davy , who has rooms adjoining mine (in the Royal Institution); he is a very agreeable and… — John Dalton Copy Share Image
Make philosophy thy journey, theology thy journey's end: philosophy is a pleasant way, but dangerous to him that either tires or retires;… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
To turn Karl [Popper]'s view on its head, it is precisely the abandonment of critical discourse that marks the transition of science.… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
“A mama's boy, loner, intellectual, voracious reader and gourmand, Dimitri was a man of esoteric skills and appetites: a gambler, philosopher, gardener,… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Kantians are saddled with absolutist views, Aristotelians are accused of vagueness, and there is almost no horror to which Consequentialists are innocent… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
After all that corrupt poets, and more corrupt philosophers, have told us of the blandishments of pleasure, and of its tendency to… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Others of them employ outward marks ... They style themselves Gnostics. They also possess images, some of them painted and others formed… — Irenaeus of Lyons Copy Share Image
“A philosopher might have deplored this lack of mental ambition, but only if he was really certain about where his next meal… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It was Sci-Fi and fantasy that got me reading, and Sci-Fi writers in particular have pack rat minds. They introduce all sorts… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Enough of self, that darling luscious theme, O'er which philosophers in raptures dream; Of which with seeming disregard they write Then prizing… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
Novelists don't age as quickly as philosophers, who often face professional senility in their late twenties. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Cowardice was undoubtedly one of the most terrible vices - thus spoke Yeshua Ha-Nozri. 'No, philosopher, I disagree with you: it is… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
Money does all things,--for it gives and it takes away; it makes honest men and knaves, fools and philosophers; and so forward,… — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
The picture which the philosopher draws of the world is surely not one in which every stroke is necessitated by pure logic. — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
“Christianity is at its purest a philosophy about a person, Jesus Christ, and at its dirtiest a philosophy about requirements and law.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
they go and set up free-will with the heathen philosophers and say that a man's free will is the cause why God… — William Tyndale Copy Share Image
Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life. — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
Philosophers are smart, analytical, and skeptical. For these reasons they are relatively unbiased. — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
You beat the liver out of a goose to get a pâté; you pound the muscles of a man's cardia to get… — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
This sort of thing has got to be stopped. Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Every man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
He who esteems trifles for themselves is a trifler; he who esteems them for the conclusions to be drawn from them, or… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
People or philosophers keep saying that our fundamental objective in life is to be happy! This is wrong! Our fundamental objective in… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image