A philosophy which speaks, even indirectly, only to philosophers is no philosophy at all; and I think the same is true if… — Abraham Kaplan Copy Share Image
It has been a long time since philosophers have read men's souls. It is not their task, we are told. Perhaps. But… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I had become aware, as early as my college days, that no opinion, however absurd and incredible can be imagined, that has… — René Descartes Copy Share Image
“Being a philosopher requires a lot of thinking and no action. Being a model requires a lot of action and no thinking.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“French philosophers had been able to admire Mao and his works because they did not have to live in China at the… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
The rank and file are not philosophers, they are not educated to think for themselves, but simply to accept, unquestioned, whatever comes. — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
“Philosophers are despots who have no armies to command, so they subject the world to their tyranny by locking it up in… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
“Such,' thought Mr. Pickwick, 'are the narrow views of those philosophers who, content with examining the things that lie before them, look… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Even as I pursued a doctorate in the history of ideas in my native Denmark, I realized I had neither the encyclopedic… — Anne Fortier Copy Share Image
“take care, in reading the writings of philosophers or hearing their speeches, that you do not attend to words more than things,… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
I think that both Mill and Sidgwick are great and admirable philosophers, from whom we still have a lot to learn. I… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
“Lovers cannot remain philosophers for long, they should give way to the religious impulse, which is to believe and have faith, as… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The wall at Le Philosophe is covered with French philosophers, and supposedly, if you are able to name all of them, they… — Caterina Fake Copy Share Image
The ancient Greek philosophers were blonde and blue-eyed and, even then, talked about how their race was mixed with others and how… — Varg Vikernes 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
Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say "thus it shall be!", it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
When we meet with better fare than was expected, the disappointment is overlooked even by the unscrupulous. When we meet with worse… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
I feel that we are all philosophers, and that those who describe themselves as a 'philosopher' simply do not have a day… — Kevin Warwick Copy Share Image
“When reading, one needs to remember that poets and philosophers are not prescribing courses of action but exploring aspects of existence.” — Louise Cowan Copy Share Image
Philosophers are often actively disinterested in what happens between the cup and the lips (after all, that's "non-ideal theory"). — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
The figure of Satan and the fires of hell have been demythologized by modern Christian biblical scholars, theologians and philosophers. — John Bradshaw 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
“The truth, he thought, has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to… — Arthur Young Copy Share Image
When I went to school, there were no Black philosophers, at least none that I was aware of, who were recognized by… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
“Babbage, Herschel, Jones, and Whewell are a strange breed: the last of the natural philosophers, who engendered, as it were with their… — Laura J. Snyder Copy Share Image
The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers. — Bryan Magee Copy Share Image
“Only poets and philosophers see the world as it really is, for only to them is it given to live without illusions.… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I read all the great philosophers but most people just hear what they want to hear and it makes it easy for… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
Philosophers should be, as Seneca put it, 'lawyers for humanity'. Make what you think and feel count; the examined life has global… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would… — Jack Kevorkian Copy Share Image
When it comes to the real operational issues that govern our understanding of physical reality, ontological definitions of classical philosophers are, in… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The philosophers likewise assume that in Nature there is nothing in vain, so that everything that is not the product of human… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I don’t even pretend to believe I know everything; I just believe in arguments God told me I had a pretty good… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
All that philosophers have handled for millennia has been conceptual mummies; nothing actual has ever escaped from their hands alive. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In my opinion a mathematician, in so far as he is a mathematician, need not preoccupy himself with philosophy-an opinion, moreover, which… — Henri Lebesgue Copy Share Image
Philosophers are people who know less and less about more and more, until they know nothing about everything. Scientists are people who… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
