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
We were promised a society of philosophers. But the Blogosphere is looking more and more like a nation of ankle-biters. — Steven Levy Copy Share Image
How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it. [ These words are also… — Karl Marx 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
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
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
Philosophers get attention only when they appear to be doing something sinister--corrupting the youth, undermining the foundations of civilization, sneering at all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People complain that our generation has no philosophers. They are wrong. They now sit in another faculty. Their names are Max Planck… — Adolf von Harnack Copy Share Image
At the very time that philosophers of the most enterprising benevolence were founding in Greece those institutions which have rendered it the… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
here was the secret of happiness, about which philosophers had disputed for so many ages, at once discovered; happiness might now be… — Thomas de Quincey 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
Philosophers have often held dispute As to the seat of thought in man and brute For that the power of thought attends… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The American people want to pay attention to serious ideas again. Our founding was built by people who were political philosophers, and… — Dave Brat Copy Share Image
There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fontenelle says he would… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Behold the works of our philosophers; with all their pompous diction, how mean and contemptible they are by comparison with the Scriptures!… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
My advice is really this: what we hear the philosophers saying and what we find in their writings should be applied in… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Throughout all history, the great wise men and teachers, philosophers, and prophets have disagreed with one another on many different things. It… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
I think philosophers can do things akin to theoretical scientists, in that, having read about empirical data, they too can think of… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
For one thing, I think that there are questions which philosophers raise which, although science bears on them, are not typically the… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
When philosophers use a word--"knowledge," "being," "object," "I," "proposition," "name"--and try to grasp the essence of the thing, one must always ask… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“The philosophers of the past were superficial,” Dr. Pritchett went on. “It remained for our century to redefine the purpose of philosophy.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
At times, I have been criticized by some philosophers of education, who place me in postures that they classify pejoratively as 'revolutionary.'… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Many scientists think that philosophy has no place, so for me it's a sad time because the role of reflection, contemplation, meditation,… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
“It seems as if in the process of growing up we lose the ability to wonder about the world. And in doing… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“[H]ere was the secret of happiness, about which philosophers had disputed for so many ages, at once discovered: happiness might now be… — Thomas De Quincey Copy Share Image
A few philosophers really do important work. This applies to the so called critical philosophy and to the theory of knowledge or… — Alfred Korzybski 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
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 great philosophers of the past who wrote so beautifully - Rousseau, John Stuart Mill - had to write beautifully because they… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
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
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
“This is precisely where philosophers are a notable exception. A philosopher never gets quite used to the world. to him or her,… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
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