In regard to the philosophers, if they be true philosophers, i.e., lovers of truth, they should not be irritated that the earth… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Some recent philosophers seem to have given their moral approval to these deplorable verdicts that affirm that the intelligence of an individual… — Alfred Binet Copy Share Image
It was Schopenhauer who made me a philosopher. Real philosophy, I told my appalled colleagues at Auckland, is about sex, death, and… — Julian Young Copy Share Image
The true cook is the perfect blend, the only perfect blend, of artist and philosopher. He knows his worth: he holds in… — Norman Douglas Copy Share Image
Poor Capablanca! Thou wert a brilliant technician, but no philosopher. Thou wert not capable of believing that in chess, another style could… — Max Euwe Copy Share Image
The human race will have no respite from evils until those who are really philosophers acquire political power or until, through some… — Plato Copy Share Image
Long before Einstein told us that matter is energy, Machiavelli and Hobbes and other modern political philosophers defined man as a lump… — George Will Copy Share Image
I had no idea what philosophy was until I went to college at UBC. I first read Hume and Plato, so naturally… — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
Some philosophers tell us that selfishness is at the root of our best loves and affections. Mr. Dombey's young child was, from… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The mathematic, then, is an art. As such it has its styles and style periods. It is not, as the layman and… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
“In everything, no matter what it may be, uniformity is undesirable. Leaving something incomplete makes it interesting, and gives one the feeling… — Yoshida Kenko Copy Share Image
“I am not worried about pleasing clever minds or fashionable people. In every period there will be men fated to be governed… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Complaisance, though in itself it be scarce reckoned in the number of moral virtues, is that which gives a lustre to every… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing temperate… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The real searcher after truth will not receive the old because it is old, or reject the new because it is new.… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I have been told, that in some public discourses of mine my reverence for the intellect has made me unjustly cold to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Katie Price is no exception. She, too, is - in a distinctive way - a philosopher. Partially, Katie Price's philosophy is one… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I'm a teacher and a philosopher by nature... In the end, I'm trying to teach people to live a better life. And… — Carlos Mencia Copy Share Image
The theistic philosopher has a tendency to devalue insufficient worldviews, ideologies, and quite often common sense for the greater good, and in… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I illustrate with a quotation from the atheist philosopher Richard Rorty, who died recently and is, I suspect, now having a lengthy… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
Analyzing a concept can (perhaps) tell you what the concept means (at least means to some philosophers), but it does not tell… — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
It is not science which leads to unbelief but rather ignorance. The ignorant man thinks he understands something provided that he sees… — Jan Potocki Copy Share Image
I believe that any individual who has spiritually awakened in our time, to the degree that he or she finds a higher… — Andrew Cohen Copy Share Image
I wish, my dear Kepler, that we could have a good laugh together at the extraordinary stupidity of the mob. What do… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
The upshot is that most philosophers of biology now hold that biological properties supervene on physical properties (where supervenience is taken to… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer. Indeed the measure of our intellectual… — Gordon Allport Copy Share Image
Talk about polygamy! There is no true philosopher on the face of the earth but what will admit that such a system,… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Everyone now agrees that a physics lacking all connection with mathematics ... would only be an historical amusement, fitter for entertaining the… — Franz Karl Achard Copy Share Image
“A scientist is not to teach humans, but to serve humans A philosopher is not to teach humans, but to serve humans.… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Some philosophers think that the idea of a consequentialist virtue theory is strange, but the real strength of consequentialism is that it… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Christmas was close at hand, in all his bluff and hearty honesty; it was the season of hospitality, merriment, and open-heartedness; the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Mathematicians have sought knowledge in figures, Philosophers in systems, Logicians in subtleties, and Metaphysicians in sounds. It is not in any nor… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is almost a rule that the more complex a man is, the simpler his billing. A person with a retrospective ability… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Pagan philosophers set up reason as the sole guide of life, of wisdom and conduct; but Christian philosophy demands of us that… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
My doctor said to me afterwards, 'When you were ill you behaved like a true philosopher. Every time you came to yourself… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The Street Epistemologist is a philosopher and a fighter. She has savvy and street smarts that come from the school of hard… — Peter Boghossian Copy Share Image
As long as I have the talent and there's a demand for the old Chinese man - whether he's a philosopher, or… — James Hong Copy Share Image
“Most sane human beings who are over the age of six usually act or react not as per what they genuinely feel… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
To me personally the only function of philosophy is to teach us to take life more lightly and gayly than the average… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein once remarked that if you ask a man how much is two plus two and he tells you… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
