William James was not a prophet. He was a philosopher whose philosophy reflected his profound humanity. — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
“When a philosopher wants high ceilings, he goes outside'. He doesn't buy an oversize house that requires massive amounts of dwindling resources… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
If your divines are not philosophers, your philosophy will neither be divine, nor able to divine. — Julius Charles Hare Copy Share Image
“Some of us were brought into this troubled world primarily or only to increase our fathers’ chances of not being left by… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Hold fast, therefore, O circular philosopher, to thy centre, and drive the globe along its orbit by the momentum of thy thought. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
It has often been said, and certainly not without justification, that the man of science is a poor philosopher. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The savage lives simply through ignorance and idleness or laziness, but the philosopher lives simply through wisdom. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Certainly the philosopher of 'possible worlds' must take care that his technical apparatus not push him to ask questions whose meaningfulness is… — Saul Kripke Copy Share Image
And though the philosopher may live remote from business, the genius of philosophy, if carefully cultivated by several, must gradually diffuse itself… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“Students of the heavens are separable into astronomers and astrologers as readily as are the minor domestic ruminants into sheep and goats,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There was a time I was no longer going to be black. I was going to be an 'intellectual.' When I was… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
Behold the works of our philosophers; with all their pompous diction, how mean and contemptible they are by comparison with the Scriptures!… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
When people hear that I have a chronic illness, they'll say things like "Focus on you." Well, my spiritual and emotional fulfillment… — Karen Duffy Copy Share Image
There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fontenelle says he would… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
And although I have seen nothing but black crows in my life, it doesn't mean that there's no such thing as a… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
The experimentalists think that we can only get at our concepts by way of empirical investigation, while the armchair philosophers think that… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
“A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work… — Arthur Schopenhaur Copy Share Image
“Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Golden Verses So-called because they are "good as gold." They are by some attributed to Epicarmos, and by others to Empedocles, but… — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
I also realized that the philosophers, far from ridding me of my vain doubts, only multiplied the doubts that tormented me and… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
There has certainly been a great deal of work addressing the relationship between naturalism and the first-person perspective. Quite a number of… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
A writer must always try to have a philosophy and he should also have a psychology and a philology and many other… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
I am not sure just what Marx had in mind when he wrote that "philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Spending that many hours in the saddle gave a man plenty of time to think. That's why so many cowboys fancied themselves… — Charles Marion Russell Copy Share Image
The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
By renouncing the Bible, philosophers swing from their moorings upon all moral subjects..It is the only correct map of the human heart… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
To this principle of vanity, which philosophers call a mean one, and which I do not, I owe a great part of… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Can an ass be tragic?To perish under a burden that one can neither bear nor cast off? The case of the philosopher. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Shall I show you the sinews of a philosopher? What sinews are those? - A will undisappointed; evils avoided; powers daily exercised;… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
A philosopher is a person who doesn't care which side his bread is buttered on; he knows he eats both sides anyway. — Joyce Brothers Copy Share Image
“Some of the best things that have ever happened to us wouldn’t have happened to us, if it weren’t for some of… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I have never come across someone who could inspire more respect than the Greek philosophers. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Each philosopher, each bard, each actor has only done for me, as by a delegate, what one day I can do for… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit. — Laozi 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
