Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of…

Poets have a sense of place. My place was London, and I sang about it.

— Donovan

The great philosophers are poets who believe in the reality of their poems.

— Antonio Machado

“All philosophers must, therefore, doff their hats to the poets when they discover that the path of reason takes them only so far.”

— Hagiwara Sakutaro

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

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

It is not the poet's business to save man's soul but to make it worth saving . . . However, few poets have written…

— James Elroy Flecker

“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

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