Comedians are thinkers. The best ones are akin to philosophers, in my opinion. — Ted Alexandro Copy Share Image
Philosophers ought to aspire to know lots of different things and to forge useful synthetic perspectives. — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Bad philosophers may have a certain influence; good philosophers, never. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“In France, philosophers are celebrities. In the United States, celebrities are philosophers.” — Peter Carlson Copy Share Image
It is now no mystery that some quite influential philosophers were mentally ill. — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them. — Wallace Stevens 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
Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers; read, study and think a great deal of life... — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
The quest for our origin is the sweet fruit's juice which maintains satisfaction in the minds of the philosophers. — Luca Pacioli Copy Share Image
For they, the philosophers, were considered teachers of right living, which is far more excellent, since to speak well belongs only to… — Lactantius Copy Share Image
Teenagers are philosophers. They are thinking about the big things like existence and identity at a time when their identities are changing… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“There are many things wealth cannot buy, and most of those are enumerated by philosophers who have never woken wondering if this… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
Philosophy recovers itself when it ceases to be a device for dealing with the problems of philosophers and becomes a method, cultivated… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“He sensed Death with a depth and clarity of which only small children or great philosophers are capable, philosophers who are themselves… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
“that held no tradition too sacred to question. Jesus was the first of the Enlightenment philosophers. In John 8: 4-7 speaking like… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“still the teachings of the philosophers are not the commandments of the gods, but the discoveries of men, who, at the prompting… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
Identifying Israel with Jewry obscures the existence of the small but important post-Zionist movement in Israel, including the philosophers Adi Ophir and… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Osho is one of India's greatest mystics… I see him as one of the world's great teachers, thinkers, philosophers and guides of… — Kabir Bedi Copy Share Image
Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or… — Bertrand Russell 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
A couple of hundred years from now, maybe [science fiction writers] Isaac Asimov and Fred Pohl will be considered the important philosophers… — Marvin Minsky 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
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
“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
“Descartes' Meditations; doubt rise and results in clear and distinct ideas. all in the mind and all innate. Spinoza bakes the best… — Aporva Kala Copy Share Image
“We say that the dangerous criminal is the educated criminal. We say that the most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless… — G.K. Chesterton 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
Even those who have desired to work out a completely positive philosophy have been philosophers only to the extent that, at the… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
“Hmmm!” directed to Fai. “Is there such thing as an answer, Fai?” he asked, though by his tone, Wolfdon could tell he… — Mary-Jean Harris Copy Share Image
“To be more precise: although philosophical questions concern us all, we do not all become philosophers.” — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Children are the only brave philosophers. And brave philosophers are, inevitably, children. — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“Not philosophers, but fret-sawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers. — William James Copy Share Image
Philosophers are as jealous as woman; each wants a monopoly of praise. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
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