“If women are so smart, how come hardly any philosophers have been, and now are, female?” — Juan T. Llibre Copy Share Image
Philosophers say that nothing can be seen that is neither illuminated nor colored. — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
“Many philosophers have defined the meaning of life, while few, like Diogenes, have dared to live it.” — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
It's catastrophies which turn wise and strong people into philosophers. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
There's no precedent for women philosophers and there's no precedence for most of the things I did. — Agnes Denes Copy Share Image
“Admirable man, who know teeth by dreams, think you that all those of philosophers are decayed?” — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
Philosophy abounds more than philosophers, and learning more than learned men. — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Sometimes I say philosophers should be at the table because they're the only people who know that they're not going to walk… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
“Only a philosopher would consider taking Oedipus as a model for a normal, unproblematic relation between an action and the maxim of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I grew up in a household that really encouraged reading and writing. My mother loves philosophy and is constantly reading philosophy and… — Lulu Wang Copy Share Image
I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
after all the work of the philosophers on his soul and the doctors on his body, what can we really say we… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“For particulars, as every one knows, make for virture and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The philosophers have always given truth a bill of divorce, by separating what nature has joined together and vice versa. — Johann Georg Hamann Copy Share Image
The philosophers talk across the centuries exclusively to one another, hermetically sealed from any influences derived from non-philosophical discourse. — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
“There is a present because it works with my theories. If you find a better one than mine, then I may reconsider,… — Mary-Jean Harris Copy Share Image
One could say that what differentiates ancient from modern philosophy is the fact that, in ancient philosophy, it was not only Chrysippus… — Pierre Hadot Copy Share Image
The triumph of science has been mainly due to its practical utility, and there has been an attempt to divorce this aspect… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Are there experts, ethical experts, that's very offensive to all of us? Because it's part of our humanity to have a stake… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
There are actually two separate issues here. The first is whether (as ancient philosophers and Nietzsche assume) only the privileged elite can… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
“The society we have described can never grow into a reality or see the light of day, and there will be no… — Plato Copy Share Image
Contemporary philosophers are facing problems that were unthinkable only one century ago, such as whether space and time are mutually Independent, whether… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
Some philosophers have been of opinion that our immortal part acquires during this life certain habits of action or of sentiment, which… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
“The sum of productive forces, capital funds and social forms of intercourse, which every individual and generation finds in existence as something… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“What we encounter in works of art and philosophy are objective versions of our own pains and struggles, evoked and defined in… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“But these philosophers, whose hands seem only made to dabble in dirt, and their eyes to pour over the microscope or crucible,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Moreover, we look in vain to philosophy for the answer to the great riddle. Despite its noble purpose and history, pure philosophy… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Seduced by the spectacular theoretical and practical successes of the objective sciences into thinking that the methods and criteria of those sciences… — D. R. Khashaba Copy Share Image
“The criers of the Mysteries speak again, bidding all men welcome to the House of Light. The great institution of materiality has… — Manly P. Hall Copy Share Image
“Unless,” I said, “the philosophers rule as kings or those now called kings and chiefs genuinely and adequately philosophize, and political power… — Plato Copy Share Image
“I no longer follow the voices of the sane. I follow the ill because they see farther, feel much more and change… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
The highest philosophers, in explaining the mystery of this world, are obliged to call in the aid of another. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself. — Stokely Carmichael Copy Share Image
I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior. — Hippolyte Taine Copy Share Image
“Philosophers should be offered condolences rather than encouragement.” — Mark Rowlands Copy Share Image
It seems to me that philosophers should be more relaxed about whether or not some form of materialism is true. — Tyler Burge Copy Share Image
Philosophers are in the habit of setting themselves before life and experience. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“We are philosophers of our time Floating in the moon's evening glow” — Richard L. Ratliff Copy Share Image
Philosophers are as jealous as women; each wants a monopoly of praise — George Santayana Copy Share Image
