“All philosophers must, therefore, doff their hats to the poets when they discover that the path of reason takes them only so… — Hagiwara Sakutaro Copy Share Image
What makes philosophy so tedious is not the profundity of philosophers, but their lack of art; they are like physicians who soughtto… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“[L]e philosophe n'a jamais tué de prêtres et le prêtre a tué beaucoup de philosophes... (The philosopher has never killed any priests,… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
One of the reasons why architects are often attracted to philosophers, partially, has to do with making sense of the world around… — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
The clear and simple words of common usage are always better than those of erudition. The jargon of the philosophers not seldom… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
I studied English at Princeton in the early eighties in what I consider a period of high obscurity. Professors and students ran… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Philosophers, for example, often fail to recognize that their remarks about the universe apply also to themselves and their remarks. If the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from… — Edmund Husserl Copy Share Image
“A philosopher,' said Mrs. Cantanker, stalking across the study, black heels clicking, ruby silks whispering around her ankles, 'is one who attempts… — Stefan Bachmann Copy Share Image
I can only tell you that eggs, country ham, biscuits, a pot of coffee, a morning paper, a table by the window… — Dan Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it’s great, and sometimes it’s shit. These are the things all the great philosophers just won’t tell you flat out about… — R.M. Engelhardt Copy Share Image
Scientists have power by virtue of the respect commanded by the discipline... We live with poets and politicians, preachers and philosophers. All… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
The greatest artists, saints, philosophers, and, until quite recent times, scientists... have all assumed that the New Testament promise of eternal life… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
I spent on the Other Earth many "other years," wandering from mind to mind and country to country, but I did not… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
“Life is a chaplet of little miseries which the philosopher counts with a smile. Be philosophers, as I am, gentlemen; sit down… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
There is a sort of myth of History that philosophers have… History for philosophers is some sort of great, vast continuity in… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“Academic philosophers in the English speaking world still regard philosophy as Locke defined it in the 17th century, as “the handmaiden of… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“It is well known that geometry presupposes not only the concept of space but also the first fundamental notions for constructions in… — Bernhard Riemann Copy Share Image
“Thus identified with astronomy, in proclaiming truths supposed to be hostile to Scripture, Geology has been denounced as the enemy of religion.… — David Brewster Copy Share Image
“They say instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of clichés, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“One UniVerse for the Living While palaces attest to the power of men, And monuments mark their wars, Little remains of the… — Nancy Boutilier Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the fact that comics are people who are oddly courageous in their desire and their commitment to sacrificing any… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
I persist in preferring philosophers to rabbis priests imams ayatollahs and mullahs. Rather than trust their theological hocus-pocus I prefer to draw… — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
In taking action we must remember that the things which are happening to the Jews today are but a part of the… — Louis Finkelstein Copy Share Image
The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
What you can imagine depends on what you know. Philosophers who know only philosophy consign themselves to a janitorial role in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers; read, study and think a great deal of life... — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
“Philosophers have actually devoted themselves, in the main, neither to perceiving the world, nor to spinning webs of conceptual theory, but to… — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
Philosophers are never happy here. Now is not their time, and here is not their space. They live there, they live somewhere… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I'm the best promoter in the world because I haven't taken a day off work since I left the penitentiary, and because… — Don King Copy Share Image
All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all male. Africa,… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The only good thing that we owe to Plato and Aristotle is that they brought forward many arguments which we can use… — Girolamo Savonarola Copy Share Image
Notice that all the traditional things philosophers do, looking for validity and soundness, promote civic friendship. That sounds pretty pie in the… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
“Lyotard remarked that post-Modern artists often function as philosophers. They may deal with issues of metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics, as many influential… — Thomas McEvilley Copy Share Image
“So it is that, just as nature abhors a vacuum, philosophy abhors an answer, for once the truth is truly attained, the… — Dan Garfat-Pratt Copy Share Image
The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
Anytime you see a Hungarian, kick him. He'll know why. Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Philosophers are people who do violence, but have no army at their disposal, and so subjugate the world by locking it into… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
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