What's a philosopher?' said Brutha. Someone who's bright enough to find a job with no heavy lifting,' said a voice in his… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
If someone asks, ‘But what in the end is a philosopher?’ I would say ‘A philosopher is a human being who fights… — Louis Althusser Copy Share Image
Every philosophical thinker hails it [The Origin of Species] as a veritable Whitworth gun in the armoury of liberalism. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
I feel that we are all philosophers, and that those who describe themselves as a 'philosopher' simply do not have a day… — Kevin Warwick Copy Share Image
It is fear and terror that make all men brave, except the philosophers. Yet it is illogical to be brave through fear… — Plato Copy Share Image
“I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well. { His teacher was the legendary philosopher Aristotle }” — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“There is nothing morally wrong with buying stolen goods, unless you know that they were stolen.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The mind is a great philosopher. And life is not a philosophy, life is a reality. And philosophy is an escape from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is not unusual to hear a religious leader, a philosopher, or a poet refer to man as having a divine spark… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Certainly neo-Platonism, Plotinus and Porphyry and that school are psychedelic philosophers. Their idea of an ascending hierarchy of more and more rarefied… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
These 'philosophers', etc., seem unaware, to give a specific example, that by teaching and preaching 'identity', which is empirically non-existent in this… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
“The King! I thought him enough of a philosopher to realize that there is no such thing as murder in politics. You… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
I could identify for virtually every important figure in the history of modern continental philosophy an idea (or more than one) absolutely… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Walking companions, like heroes, are difficult to pluck out of the crowd of acquaintances. Good dispositions, ready wit, friendly conversation serve well… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
Philosophy recovers itself when it ceases to be a device for dealing with the problems of philosophers and becomes a method, cultivated… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Every man feels that perception gives him an invincible belief of the existence of that which he perceives; and that this belief… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
As the worldly philosophers of the past affirmed, the goal of economics is to improve the way society functions. In The New… — Peter L. Bernstein Copy Share Image
“He had learned some of the things that every man must find out for himself, and he had found out about them… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
I believe that even a smattering of such findings in modern science and mathematics is far more compelling and exciting than most… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
How can we satisfy ourselves without going on in infinitum? And, after all, what satisfaction is there in that infinite progression? Let… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“A philosopher has remarked that if a man knew that he had thirty years of life before him, it would not be… — C.H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“A real philosopher, Sophie, is completely different kettle of fish - the direct opposite, in fact. A philosopher knows that in reality… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
The old men ask for more time; the young waste it. And the philosopher simply smiles, knowing there is none there. — R. S. Thomas Copy Share Image
He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Philosophers ought to aspire to know lots of different things and to forge useful synthetic perspectives. — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple. Great kings, emperors, generals, admirals and… — Thomas Sydenham Copy Share Image
The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“The last time everyone loved or at least liked everyone was when the world had a population of about 4.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
You deserve all the good things that happen to you. Don't feel guilty and accept the blessings. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Sometimes your fall is not caused by your enemies, but it is caused by your stupid actions, behavior, and bad attitude.” — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
The mind is a kind of theater, where several perceptions successively make their appearence; pass, re-pass, glide away, and mingle in an… — David Hume Copy Share Image
It is my intent to beget a good understanding between the chymists and the mechanical philosophers who have hitherto been too little… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
what I think separates me from most philosophers probably is that I'm a bluesman in the life of the mind, I'm a… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Philosophers are often actively disinterested in what happens between the cup and the lips (after all, that's "non-ideal theory"). — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
To be a philosopher... is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
With respect to the doctrine of a future life, a North American Indian knows just as much as any ancient or modern… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
“O wayfarer! Yearn finds quench, not in meadows, seashores or altitude of mountain peaks; but when being becomes dance.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
I see the beard and cloak, but I don't yet see a philosopher. -Video barbam et pallium; philosophum nondum video — Aulus Gellius Copy Share Image
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