A man becomes a philosopher by reason of a certain perplexity, from which he seeks to free himself. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“A philosopher operates with deductions. A sophist operates with paradoxes. A "public intellectual" operates with buzzwords.” — Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski Copy Share Image
Philosophers don't all believe that ethics is just based on intuition. That's just stupid! It's ignoramus! — Marjorie Grene Copy Share Image
Philosophers are divided on the question of whether the narrative therein unfolded [the Crossman Diaries] is grippingly boring or boringly gripping. — Clive James Copy Share Image
I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The Christian on his knees sees more than the philosopher on tiptoe. God sends no one away empty except those who are… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
If you make a product good enough... the public will make a path to your door, says the philosopher. But if you… — William Randolph Hearst Copy Share Image
give the man of color an equal opportunity with the white, from the cradle to manhood, and from manhood to the grave,… — Maria W. Stewart Copy Share Image
Throughout all history, the great wise men and teachers, philosophers, and prophets have disagreed with one another on many different things. It… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions. Intellect, will, taste, and… — William James Copy Share Image
He [Professor Moriarty] is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I'm most impressed by the Russian writers, so I love reading the works of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Another author who has informed… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
The nature of God is something that is of serious interest to believers, to theologians, and to philosophers. And yet we can't… — George Coyne Copy Share Image
“I was not born with a silver spoon in my mouth, nor did I have access to information like you do today… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The walking delegates of a higher civilization, who have nothing to divide, look upon the notion of property as a purely artificial… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth… He whose desires… — Plato Copy Share Image
The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“...It would hardly be a waste of time if sometimes even the most advanced students in the cognitive sciences were to pay… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Since ancient times, the philosophers' secret has always been this: we know that God does not exist, or, at least, if he… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
If the ability to tell right from wrong should turn out to have anything to do with the ability to think, then… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Sometimes when a philosopher's views are widely rejected by the world, the fault is not with the philosopher but with the world. — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
When philosophers try to understand consciousness, much of what they claim is not conceptual analysis at all, though it may be shopped… — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
“There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself. An enemy who has lost his temper & a… — Theo Papas Copy Share Image
Every good mathematician is at least half a philosopher, and every good philosopher is at least half a mathematician. — Gottlob Frege Copy Share Image
All philosophers can do is to abstain from helping the aggressors and to enjoin social scientists to tell the truth instead of… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Philosophers tend to radically underestimate the distance between abstract principles (such as "reduce suffering") and what it might actually mean for people… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
“Besides, he was a philosopher; he smoked a good many cigars over his disappointment, and in the fulness of time he got… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Today, it is not only that our kings do not know mathematics, but our philosophers do not know mathematics and - to… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
I think truth as an idea should be left to the philosophers and perhaps religious leaders and politicians, and professional people who… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
One can defend common sense against the attacks of philosophers only by solving their puzzles, i.e., by curing them of the temptation… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Beside some philosophers of larger vision, Carlyle stands like an honest, half-despairing boy, grasping at some details only of their world systems. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If a philosopher is not a man, he is anything but a philosopher; he is above all a pedant, and a pedant… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
In our corrupted state, common weaknesses and defects contribute more towards the reconciling us to one another than all the precepts of… — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax Copy Share Image
Socrates was a philosopher. He went around pointing out errors in the way things were done. They fed him hemlock. — Gil Amelio Copy Share Image
The philosopher strives to find the liberating word, that is, the word that finally permits us to grasp what up to now… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
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