As a philosopher, I have a right to ask for a rational explanation of religious faith. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“Bad publicity you get it for free, but good publicity you have to pay for. it” — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
...somehow the old philosophers could make even the most salacious topics seem boring. — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers. — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
We should listen to both philosophers and scientists, because the philosophical contribution is different from the scientific contribution, and both of them… — L.A. Paul Copy Share Image
A philosopher might find the general work unsophisticated, and scientists are often bemused by esoteric talk of zombies, supervenience, and possible worlds. — David Chalmers Copy Share Image
I also dreamt about finally meeting the leftist Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek. He is a great role model for me. — Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Copy Share Image
Only a philosopher's mind grows wings, since its memory always keeps it as close as possible to those realities by being close… — Plato Copy Share Image
“To live alone one must be either a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be… — Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm Copy Share Image
Philosophy will clip an angel's wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine - Unweave… — John Keats Copy Share Image
“Death devours not only those who have been cooked by old age; it also feasts on those who are half-cooked and even… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I have a friend, physically magnificent, who combines within himself the intellect of a philosopher, the diplomacy of a statesman, the executive… — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
“Some people are each holding on to a lover of theirs who no longer loves them and/or who they no longer love,… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Thinking should be like musical meditation. Has any philosopher pursued a thought to its limits the way Bach or Beethoven develop and… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Comedians and jazz musicians have been more comforting and enlightening to me than preachers or politicians or philosophers or poets or painters… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
So even these stages of progression, whether it's your career or whatever, you get somewhere, but then it always brings a new… — Steve Zissis Copy Share Image
Are there experts, ethical experts, that's very offensive to all of us? Because it's part of our humanity to have a stake… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
The triumph of science has been mainly due to its practical utility, and there has been an attempt to divorce this aspect… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Philosophers and theologians have argued for centuries over the morality of targeted assassinations - a technique that the Israelis use with some… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
The fact that these scientific theories have a fine track record of successful prediction and explanation speaks for itself. (Which is not… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
“It is reason which breeds pride and reflection which fortifies it; reason which turns man inward into himself; reason which separates him… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The late British-born philosopher Alan Watts, in one of his wonderful lectures on eastern philosophy, used this analogy: "If I draw a… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
For the last 250 years or so, secularists have waited patiently for the fulfilment of their prediction that religion would die out… — Daniel Taylor Copy Share Image
I argue is that philosophers have had a tendency to present a kind of mystical view of the powers of reflection. Unreflective… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
You can be horrified by the state of the prisons, the misery in certain neighborhoods of its cities, or their level of… — Bernard-Henri Levy Copy Share Image
When I think about discussions at the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, a group which includes not only philosophers and psychologists, but… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
“Lao Tse, village philosopher, believed that the richer a nation is, the poorer it becomes. He believed that knowing war teaches peace,… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
Nothing is too absurd to be said by some of the philosophers. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Therefore, even the lover of myth is a philosopher; for myth is composed of wonder. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Philosophers are capable of almost endless enjoyment of mutual misunderstanding. — Lyman Bryson Copy Share Image
“Why I'm an artist, not a philosopher? Because I think in words rather than ideas.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
