One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than…

When philosophers use a word--"knowledge," "being," "object," "I," "proposition," "name"--and try to grasp the essence of the thing, one must always ask oneself: is…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Most philosophers do not want intellectual matters to reduce to a question of morality (obedience or rebellion to God's Word). They want to hold…

— Greg L. Bahnsen

I worked among many famous philosophers, and I tried to observe how they treated students. I knew which ones I wanted to be like,…

— Martha Nussbaum

The philosophers likewise assume that in Nature there is nothing in vain, so that everything that is not the product of human industry serves…

— Maimonides

“In the eighteenth century, philosophers considered the whole of human knowledge, including science, to be their field and discussed questions such as: Did the…

— Stephen Hawking

“Poets and philosophers are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Philosopy is an important subject and has it uses, but when it comes to determining the purpose of life, even the Wisest philosophers are…

— Anonymous

Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Science will always raise philosophical questions like, is any scientific theory or model correct? How do we know? Are unobserved things real? etc. and…

— Tim Crane

“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