Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering. — Epicurus Copy Share Image
The philosophers must station themselves in the middle. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“A poet expresses with a few words, what a philosopher means with many.” — Stephen McDonough Copy Share Image
There is no opinion so stupid that it can't be expressed by some philosopher. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Philosophers say that nothing can be seen that is neither illuminated nor colored. — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
“Concepts for a philosopher are only nets for catching sense.” — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
“Some of us were brought into this troubled world primarily or only to increase our fathers’ chances of not being left by… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
My definition (of a philosopher) is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
“A philosopher who uses his professional competence for anything other except a disinterested search for truth is guilty of a kind of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The true business of the philosopher, though not flattering to his vanity, is merely to ascertain, arrange and condense the facts.” — John Leslie Copy Share Image
A philosopher is a fool who torments himself while he is alive, to be talked of after he is dead. — Jean le Rond d'Alembert Copy Share Image
Bill Russell, a famous philosopher from Boston Celtics once "When things go bad, things go bad." The [Iraq] war was terribly mismanaged-it… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination and nothing has been the occasion of more mistakes among… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“The king! I thought he was philosopher enough to allow that there was no murder in politics. In politics, my dear fellow,… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Although many philosophers used to dismiss the relevance of neuroscience on grounds that what mattered was the software, not the hardware, increasingly… — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
The law of causality, I believe, like much that passes muster among philosophers, is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In the entire first Christian century Jesus is not mentioned by a single Greek or Roman historian, religion scholar, politician, philosopher or… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
“According to the philosopher Andre Comte-Sponville: The wise man has nothing left to expect or to hope for. Because he is entirely… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
Scientists are people of very dissimilar temperaments doing different things in very different ways. Among scientists are collectors, classifiers and compulsive tidiers-up;… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Let divines and philosophers, statesmen and patriots, unite their endeavors to renovate the age by impressing the minds of men with the… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
I think one reason is that philosophers are more insecure to speak accessibly because non-philosophers are skeptical that philosophers have any special… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
The Chinese philosopher Chuang-Tzu stated that true empathy requires listening with the whole being: The hearing that is only in the ears… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Was not Hypatia the greatest philosopher of Alexandria, and a true martyr to the old values of learning? She was torn to… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
The leap of faith is a strategic impasse that confronts every Christian in search of converts; and, as he sees the matter,… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
“Well, Montag, take my word for it, I've had to read a few in my time, to know what I was about,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Philosophy and science have not always been friendly toward the idea of God, the reason being they are dedicated to the task… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The great paradox of determinism and free will, which has held the attention of the wisest of philosophers and psychologists for generations,… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles, and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Ants that encounter in their path a dead philosopher may make good use of him.” — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
The business of the philosopher is well done if he succeeds in raising genuine doubt. — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
“Tripp was like this—a suburban-dad philosopher. “You tell me.” “It’s” — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image