The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Philosophers don't all believe that ethics is just based on intuition. That's just stupid! It's ignoramus! — Marjorie Grene Copy Share Image
The great philosophers are poets who believe in the reality of their poems. — Antonio Machado Copy Share Image
“As useful as an unhappy artist. As useless as a happy philosopher.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Philosophers are smart, analytical, and skeptical. For these reasons they are relatively unbiased. — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it” — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“philosophers”—the ancient Stoics—even if they’d never read them.* They had the” — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“Philosophers are always trying to climb up the fine hairs of the fur in order to stare right into the magician's eyes.” — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
That was sort of the 'Second City' approach, which was try to be intelligent and assume your audience is intelligent. We were… — Joe Flaherty Copy Share Image
Some philosophers see into themselves, and some into their times; still others forge an alliance with the future. — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
I have used the philosophers' ideas for my own private literary purposes, but I don't think that I'm a thinker. I suppose… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Contemporary philosophers, even the rationalistic minded ones, have on the whole agreed that no one has intelligibly banished the mystery of fact. — William James Copy Share Image
“Some of the best things that have ever happened to us wouldn’t have happened to us, if it weren’t for some of… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Philosopy is an important subject and has it uses, but when it comes to determining the purpose of life, even the Wisest… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“They were like two philosophers starting from the same initial premise of life and each, by irrefutable argument, arriving at a diametrically… — James Jones Copy Share Image
Les vrais philosophes sont comme les e le phants, qui en marchant ne posent jamais le second pied a' terre que le… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
“In symbolic terms, Great Cthulhu should replace Minerva as the patron spirit of philosophers, and the Miskatonic must dwarf the Rhine and… — Graham Harman Copy Share Image
The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. The great philosophers have always been able to clear away… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Very many maintain that all we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown; nor do philosophers pin their… — William Harvey Copy Share Image
“One can speculate that the tardiness and wobbliness of humanity's progress on many of the "eternal problems" of philosophy are due to… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
Philosophers are never quite sure what they are talking about - about what the issues really are - and so often it… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
The doctrine (of) maintaining that the language of daily life, with words used in their ordinary meanings, suffices for philosophy . .… — Bertrand Russell 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
“He had read much of things as they are, and talked with too many people. Well-meaning philosophers had taught him to look… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“As long as he followed the fixed definition of obscure words such as spirit, will, freedom, essence, purposely letting himself go into… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“disputing about those already made. I therefore never answered M. Nollet, and the event gave me no cause to repent my silence;… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Jürgen Habermas currently ranks as one of the most influential philosophers in the world. Bridging continental and Anglo-American traditions of thought, he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Contemporary philosophers have exercised themselves with the problem of our knowledge of other minds. Enmeshed in the dogma of the ghost in… — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share Image
“Most philosophers do not want intellectual matters to reduce to a question of morality (obedience or rebellion to God's Word). They want… — Greg L. Bahnsen Copy Share Image
17th century philosophers were not in a position to understand the mind as well as we can today, since the advent of… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
Philosophers are as jealous as women; each wants a monopoly of praise — George Santayana Copy Share Image
... the only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder... — Jostein Gaarder 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
“Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image