Heraclitus called self-deception an awful disease and…

“philosophers”—the ancient Stoics—even if they’d never read them.* They had the”

— Ryan Holiday

“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

The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing…

— Mark Twain

“We all practice self-deception to a degree; no man can handle complete honesty without being cut at each turn. There's not enough room in…

— Mark Lawrence

If we can but tear the blindfold of self-deception from our eyes and loosen the gag of self-denial from our voices, we can restore…

— Theodore C. Sorensen