A philosopher who says, 'There are no truths, only interpretations,' risks the retort: 'Is that true, or only an interpretation?' — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd. — Josh McDowell Copy Share Image
Scientists search for truth. Philosophers search for morality. A criminal trial searches for only one result: proof beyond a reasonable doubt. — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
One of the old philosophers says that it is the part of wisdom to sometimes seem a fool; but in our day… — Thomas Chandler Haliburton Copy Share Image
When prosperous the fool trembles for the evil that is to come; in adversity the philosopher smiles for the good that he… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Meditation is a gift confined to unknown philosophers and cows. Others don't begin to think till they begin to talk or write. — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
By examining the tongue of the patient, physicians find out the diseases of the body, and philosophers the diseases of the mind. — Justin Martyr Copy Share Image
If those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end. — Al-Ghazali Copy Share Image
Some philosophers have begun writing sympathetically about predator elimination as a way of reducing animal suffering. From an environmental perspective this is… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
“Never call yourself a philosopher, nor talk a great deal among the unlearned about theorems, but act conformably to them. Thus, at… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Modern historians are all would-be philosophers; who, instead of relating facts as they occurred, give us their version, or rather perversions of… — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
I should like to meet a philosopher like Nietzsche somewhere in a train or a steamer, and to spend the whole night… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Problems come and go over time, and to understand why is a difficult historical task. If one wanted to find the origin… — Tim Crane Copy Share Image
Mann was profoundly influenced by two philosophers, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, who returned to the most ancient of all philosophical questions - "How… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Few parents are aware of the difficulties that beset the minds of the little philosophers and theologians who sit upon their knees… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
“I would argue that religion itself is a corruption. Isn’t it good enough to look at Jesus as a dubiously historical moral… — Noah Lugeons Copy Share Image
Maybe belief is the biggest lie. In ages past, the earliest philosophers tried to explain the stars in the sky and the… — Dan Abnett Copy Share Image
Alas, Islam turned against science in the twelfth century. The most influential figure was the philosopher Abu Hamid al-Ghazzali, who argued in… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
It is not ignoble to feel that the fuller life which a sad experience has brought us is worth our personal share… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“This time she wasn't facing racial cleansing that aimed to create physical perfection, size and color to achieve purity. Now it was… — Armando Lucas Correa Copy Share Image
Good Lord, I don't know what 'rights' a man has! And I don't know the solution of boredom. If I did, I'd… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
A person of your century: Great persons are of their time. Not all were born into a period worthy of them, and… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
The philosopher ... subjects experience to his critical judgment, and this contains a value judgment namely, that freedom from toil is preferable… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Philosophers get attention only when they appear to be doing something sinister--corrupting the youth, undermining the foundations of civilization, sneering at all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For conclusion, I say the philosopher teacheth, but he teacheth obscurely, so as the learned only can understand him; that is to… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Dostoevsky is such a bad writer it is hard to take him seriously as a novelist, though he is a wonderful philosopher. — John Banville Copy Share Image
According to Nietzche," said a sharp new voice, making them all jump, "philosophy is the biography of the philosopher. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The man of science, the artist, the philosopher are attached to their nations as much as the day-laborer and the merchant. — Julien Benda Copy Share Image
Kant can provide, and has provided, a good model for philosophers to think about the relation of metaphysics to science and scientific… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
The unambitious sluggard pretends that the eminence is not worth attaining, declines altogether the struggle, and calls himself a philosopher. I say… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“I don't consider those competitions fair where judges get to decide the winner, because selected judges quite often are not worthy or… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“I said his line of thought - referring to the philosopher, because this is also a story of men.” — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Wisdom, humanity & courage, these three are universal virtues. The way by which they are practiced are one. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Is it astonishing that, like children trying to catch smoke by closing their hands, philosophers so often see the object they would… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
It is not wit merely, but temper, which must form the well-bred man. In the same manner it is not a head… — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“Most men would no longer enjoy conversing with most women if they stopped bringing their vaginas along.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I have a general moral: great philosophers may be great, but that is not a reason to follow them. Don't be a… — Tim Crane Copy Share Image
