“A poet is not somebody who has great thoughts. That is the menial duty of the philosopher. A poet is somebody who… — Mark Forsyth Copy Share Image
So far there has been no philosopher in whose hands philosophy has not grown into an apology for knowledge; on this point,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What a mathematical proof actually does is show that certain conclusions, such as the irrationality of , follow from certain premises, such… — Timothy Gowers Copy Share Image
“A celebrated philosopher — I think Miss Edgeworth — has broached the consolatory doctrine, that in intellect and disposition all human beings… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Certain mystical philosophers have personified Destiny, and from this point of view each man's personal destiny is his archetype or "other self"--his… — Charles le Gai Eaton Copy Share Image
Summer weather, like being in love,is a philosopher's stone which turns our ordinary days to gold. But not the whole day ...… — Nan Fairbrother Copy Share Image
It is not impossible to think that the minds of philosophers sometimes act like those of other mortals, and that, having once… — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
I just realized, sometime early on in college, that I wanted to be a philosopher. I basically decided that I wanted to… — L.A. Paul Copy Share Image
“England has her Stratford, Scotland has her Alloway, and America, too, has her Dresden. For there, on August 11, 1833, was born… — Herman E. Kittredge Copy Share Image
I am sorry the infernal Divinities, who visit mankind with diseases, and are therefore at perpetual war with Doctors, should have prevented… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
We rely upon the poets, the philosophers, and the playwrights to articulate what most of us can only feel, in joy or… — Helen Hayes Copy Share Image
We should realize that, if [Socrates] demanded that the wisest men should rule, he clearly stressed that he did not mean the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All philosophers make the common mistake of taking contemporary man as their starting point and of trying, through an analysis of him,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face—that young man was not really a poet; but surely he… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
As an example of just how useless these philosophers are for any practice in life there is Socrates himself, the one and… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
I don't think that anything of any consequence is known a priori: all our knowledge is built up by modifying the lore… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
“Our mind is who we are; it’s where we feel and think and believe. It’s where we have love and hate and… — Rosamund Lupton Copy Share Image
Let no Christian therefore, whether philosopher or theologian, embrace eagerly and lightly whatever novelty happens to be thought up from day to… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
As Kant says, the contribution of any common laborer would be greater than that of the greatest philosopher unless the philosopher makes… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
I started asking the big questions that I had asked in college, that my compatriots the Greek philosophers had asked, like 'what… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
An Italian philosopher said that "time was his estate"; an estate indeed which will produce nothing without cultivation, but will always abundantly… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The philosopher aspires to explain away all mysteries, to dissolve them into light. Mystery on the other hand is demanded and pursued… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
The idea that God resides in the unknown is what philosophers call the God of the gaps. And we have this thing… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
When I first collected these authorities, I was desirous that every quotation should be useful to some other end than the illustration… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
...the physicist cannot simply surrender to the philosopher the critical contemplation of the theoretical foundations; for, he himself knows best, and feels… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“O Heavenly Children, do not forget that God is here, there and everywhere. The birds are his eyes and the air is… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Jefferson refused to pin his hopes on the occasional success of honest and unambitious men; on the contrary, the great danger was… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
One doesn't diminish a philosopher's achievement, and doesn't undermine its soundness, by showing how the particular set of questions on which he… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
I largely defer to the cognitive ethologists. I believe that the arguments that they make on this score are extremely persuasive. More… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
They ask how the universe is arranged, philosophers, mathematicians, and they draw pretty pictures, impossibilities on the page. They save phenomena by… — Robin Wasserman Copy Share Image
“I like my writing career and it's progression, I'd rather be that slow moving tide that turns a mountain into a beautiful… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
The philosopher's conception of things will, above all, be truer than other men's, and his philosophy will subordinate all the circumstances of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I am the Muskrat,” said the wretched creature faintly. “A philosopher, you know. I should just like to point out that your… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all other philosophers are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add… — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share Image
That which Steinitz gave to the theoretical aspect of the game when he was at his best is very remote to all… — Alexander Alekhine Copy Share Image
The essayist . . . can pull on any sort of shirt, be any sort of person, according to his mood or… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
All our contemporary philosophers perhaps without knowing it are looking through eyeglasses that Baruch Spinoza polished. Spinoza was a philosopher who earned… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
The Roman philosopher Seneca the Younger (tutor to Nero) complained that his peers were wasting time and money accumulating too many books,… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
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