Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.

“The philosophers write about things as they are and as they appear to be, but as an artist I find that appearance is everything.”

— Gary Inbinder

“…philosophical concepts nurtured in the stillness of a professor's study could destroy a civilization…but if professors can truly wield this fatal power, may it…

— Isaiah Berlin

“We were nobodies, two young lit. students chatting away in a rickety old house in a small town at the edge of the world,…

— Karl Ove Knausgård

“Poor idiot! Are you so foolish as to believe we will openly teach you the greatest and most important of secrets? I assure you…

— Umberto Eco

“History is a cookbook. The tyrants are chefs. The philosophers write menus. The priests are waiters. The military men are bouncers. The singing you…

— Charles Simic

Sometimes I suspect that there are two prototypes of philosophers who write about humans - I call them "celestials" and "terrestrials", without implying that…

— Nomy Arpaly

There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers

— Henry David Thoreau

I studied English at Princeton in the early eighties in what I consider a period of high obscurity. Professors and students ran around discussing…

— Walter Kirn

All philosophers should end their days at Pythia’s feet. There is only one philosophy, that of unique moments.

— Emile M. Cioran

“Socrates: Have you noticed on our journey how often the citizens of this new land remind each other it is a free country? Plato:…

— Anonymous

Now that we do not have priests and philosophers any more, artists are the most important people in the world.

— Gerhard Richter

For they, the philosophers, were considered teachers of right living, which is far more excellent, since to speak well belongs only to a few,…

— Lactantius

If experiments are performed thousands of times at all seasons and in every place without once producing the effects mentioned by your philosophers, poets,…

— Galileo Galilei

It will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

“Mr. Pickwick was a philosopher, but philosophers are only men in armour, after all.”

— Charles Dickens