A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“I have tried in my time to be a philosopher; but somehow cheerfulness was always breaking in.” — Oliver Edwards Copy Share Image
If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Today secular philosophers call that kind of divine invocation God of the gaps-which comes in handy, because there has never been a… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Some people hate people who are overconfident, only because their overconfidence reminds them of their underconfidence.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers. — Bryan Magee Copy Share Image
Do not give your attention to what others do or fail to do; give it to what you do or fail to… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
A pipe is the fountain of contemplation, the source of pleasure, the companion of the wise; and the man who smokes, thinks… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
While I do not agree with all of the claims made by experimental philosophers, especially those who seem to think xphi will… — L.A. Paul Copy Share Image
I'm not sure that I 'am' a philosopher - but I do engage with questions that are generally recognized as philosophical questions,… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
A philosopher may try to prove the truth of something he believed before he was a philosopher, but even if he succeeds,… — David Stove Copy Share Image
As a kid you learn that there are thinkers and there are philosophers and there are theologian, and I'd hear little bits… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
We cannot define anything precisely. If we attempt to, we get into the paralysis of thought that comes to philosophers, who sit… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
When we call a philosopher distinguished, we are not saying that she is worthy and not saying that she is recognized, but… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
It is often difficult to know about one's own era which philosophers in it will be remembered as the most important ones,… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
I've been labelled many times - a criminal, an anarchist, a rebel, sometimes human garbage, but never a philosopher, which is a… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
My first degree was in mathematics. That was great, but it didn't help with many of the things that puzzled me. I… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
They [intellectuals] coined most of the slogans that guided the butcheries of Bolshevism, Fascism, and Nazism. Intellectuals extolling the delights of murder,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Five hundred years before Christ was born, the Greek philosopher Heraclitus told his students that "everything changes except the law of change".… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
More investment sins are probably committed by otherwise quite intelligent people because of "tax considerations" than from any other cause. One of… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“I call myself the last philosopher, because I am the last man. No one speaks with me but myself, and my voice… — Friedrich Nietzsche "Oedipus Soliloquy of the Last Philosopher Copy Share Image
That's why it's always worth having a few philosophers around the place. One minute it's all is truth beauty and is beauty… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word.… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
When you want to hear a philosopher, do not say, 'You say nothing to me'; only show yourself worthy or fit to… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers. — William James Copy Share Image
Stop waiting for others to change. Recognize that every person has the right to be whatever they choose-even if you irritate yourself… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Philosophers should be, as Seneca put it, 'lawyers for humanity'. Make what you think and feel count; the examined life has global… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I maintain that to-day many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practise… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
The philosopher Elaine Scarry has observed that "beauty always takes place in the particular." Cruelty, on the other hand, prefers abstraction. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I read all the great philosophers but most people just hear what they want to hear and it makes it easy for… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
We like the fine extravagance of that philosopher who declared that no man was as rich as all men ought to be. — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
It is decidedly not true that "nice guys finish last," as that highly original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
I could never teach people to be philosophers - and if I did, you could never make a gardener out of them. — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
The elixir of life, the philosopher's stone is yours if you surrender sterile logic, trivial reason. — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would… — Jack Kevorkian Copy Share Image
Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labour of its unfamiliar thought. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“Dance resides within us all. Some find it when joy conquers sorrow, others express it through celebration of movements; and then there… — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
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