“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
Until philosophers hold power, neither states nor individuals will have rest from trouble. — Plato Copy Share Image
“The idea of Plato that philosophers must be the rulers and directors of society is practiced in India.” — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Copy Share Image
All that philosophers have done is interpret the world in different ways. It is our job to change it. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The French have never produced a great philosopher. Great wine maybe, but no great philosophers. — Michael O'Leary Copy Share Image
There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“For centuries, philosophers have recognized that it is not the objective world that influences us but how we represent and interpret the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Philosophers often appear to intend to want to get answers about humans that we can't get about insects, and that's too much,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Poets are being pursued by the philosophers today, out of the poverty of philosophy. God damn it, you might think a man… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
“study of human nature was in a sorry state. While he had reservations about the ancient philosophers for depending ‘more on Invention… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“It’s an already inside outside, The philosophers say it’s the soul But it’s not the soul: it’s the animal or the man… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“The definition of a philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black hat, which isn’t really there.… — Michael Ruse 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
I too acknowledge the all-out omnipotence of early culture and nature; hereby we have either a doddered dwarf-bush, or a high-towering, wide-shadowing… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Oddly, since by now I've written quite a lot on early modern philosophers, I didn't care for the history of philosophy, which… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
The third lesson and tip actually comes from two of my favorite political philosophers: Mao Zedong and Mother Teresa — not often… — Anita Dunn Copy Share Image
“Our enemies are quite good for relentlessly keeping us sharp and on our toes. This especially goes for sincere philosophers. They use… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Science will always raise philosophical questions like, is any scientific theory or model correct? How do we know? Are unobserved things real?… — Tim Crane Copy Share Image
“Two different sets of philosophers have attempted to teach us this hardest of all the lessons of morality. One set have laboured… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
A single human brain has about a hundred million nerve cells... and a computer program that throws light on the mind/brain problem… — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
Since ancient times, the philosophers' secret has always been this: we know that God does not exist, or, at least, if he… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Even those who specialize in the history of philosophy often ignore the political and cultural context, and the natural world in which… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
“The race of prophets is extinct. Europe is becoming set in its ways, slowly embalming itself beneath the wrappings of its borders,… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
“Like the character Moliere who discovered to his astonishment that he had been speaking prose all his life, I discovered to my… — Bryan Magee Copy Share Image
“Faced with the thoughts, the actions of a woman whom we love, we are as completely at a loss as the world's… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Ever since Plato most philosophers have considered it part of their business to produce ‘proofs’ of immortality and the existence of God.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“But among this people there can be no doubt about the rights of women, because, as I have before said, the Gy,… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton Copy Share Image
All philosophers make the common mistake of taking contemporary man as their starting point and of trying, through an analysis of him,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Old Sam Hamilton saw this coming. He said there couldn’t be any more universal philosophers. The weight of knowledge is too great… — John Steinbeck 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
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
“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
“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
Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
“As Plato, the dangerous beguiler, said: the best philosophers in the world are boys with their beards new on their chins; I… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“Spinoza offers philosophers a new model: the body. He pro poses to establish the body as a model: "We do not know… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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