A poet is not somebody who has great thoughts. That is the…

A poet is not somebody who has great thoughts. That is the menial duty of the philosopher. A poet is somebody who expresses his…

— Mark Forsyth

“English teaching at school is, unfortunately, obsessed with what a poet thought, as though that were of any interest to anyone. Rather than being…

— Mark Forsyth

It has often struck me that the relation of two important members of the social body to one another has never been sufficiently considered,…

— James Payn

“It is solemn duty of the philosopher to piss on all that you hold dear and sacred, to show you that your gods are…

— Hanzi Freinacht

“I think of sense, and of thoughts built on sense, as windows, not as prison bars. I think that we can, however imperfectly, mirror…

— Bertrand Russell

The duty of a philosopher is clear. He must take every pain to ascertain the truth; and, having arrived at a conclusion, he should…

— Henry Thomas Buckle

My father was a rare poet. He was somebody who worked in the trenches. When he wanted to speak about social justice or gender…

— Shabana Azmi

“A poet is somebody who has written a poem.”

— Wallace Stegner

“… in these new days and in these new pages a philosophical tradition of the spontaneity of speculation kind has been rekindled on the…

— Richard Mc Sweeney

The difference between a poet and a philosopher is that the poet sees logically and describes basically the beauty whereas the philosopher defines the…

— Anonymous

There are certainly times in history where power associates itself closely with fields that we would call the humanities, like rulers surrounding themselves with…

— Elliott Colla

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

“If movements were a spark every dancer would desire to light up in flames.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

“O wayfarer! Yearn finds quench, not in meadows, seashores or altitude of mountain peaks; but when being and dance are one.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

It's hard to put into words. Gorillas are not complainers. We're dreamers, poets, philosophers, nap takers.

— Katherine Applegate