Those whose hearts are fixed on Reality itself deserve the title of Philosophers. — Plato 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
Philosophers are capable of almost endless enjoyment of mutual misunderstanding. — Lyman Bryson Copy Share Image
It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
In our corrupted state, common weaknesses and defects contribute more towards the reconciling us to one another than all the precepts of… — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax Copy Share Image
Socrates was a philosopher. He went around pointing out errors in the way things were done. They fed him hemlock. — Gil Amelio Copy Share Image
One can defend common sense against the attacks of philosophers only by solving their puzzles, i.e., by curing them of the temptation… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
I think truth as an idea should be left to the philosophers and perhaps religious leaders and politicians, and professional people who… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
If a philosopher is not a man, he is anything but a philosopher; he is above all a pedant, and a pedant… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
Beside some philosophers of larger vision, Carlyle stands like an honest, half-despairing boy, grasping at some details only of their world systems. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Philosophers tend to radically underestimate the distance between abstract principles (such as "reduce suffering") and what it might actually mean for people… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
“Since Pawlow and his pupils have succeeded in causing the secretion of saliva in the dog by means of optic and acoustic… — Jacques Loeb Copy Share Image
Disputes among natural philosophers are of use to science, as the quarrels of the great, and the clamors of the little, are… — Hal Hellman Copy Share Image
“I had to originate a philosophical framework of my own, because my basic view of man and existence was theories. In order… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
When Marx, in the Theses on Feuerbach, says that only idealism up to now has understood the active side of material Praxis,… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
When Alexander the Great visited the philosopher Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for him, Diogenes is said to have… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I am very Aristotelian in approach - not in detail - so I always find I'm saying things that get people frustrated… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
It is, I think, particularly in periods of acknowledged crisis that scientists have turned to philosophical analysis as a device for unlocking… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
“We, in the interest of the so-called progress, have been persuaded to leave the production and at times the cooking of our… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“A philosopher/mathematician named Bertrand Russell who lived and died in the same century as Gass once wrote: “Language serves not only to… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
To change man, the audience by which he judges himself must be changed. A man is defined by his audience: by the… — Luke Rhinehart Copy Share Image
“I had noticed also that Queequeg never consorted at all, or but very little, with the other seamen in the inn. He… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“The reason why most of our plans fail it is because when people are giving us a hand in what we do.… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
O sweet spontaneous earth how often have the doting fingers of prurient philosophers pinched and poked thee ,has the naughty thumb of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Only philosophers embark on this perilous expedition to the outermost reaches of language and existence. Some of them fall off, but others… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“If I now consider man in his isolated capacity, I find that dogmatic belief is no less indispensable to him in order… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
More and more it seems to me that the philosopher, being of necessity a man of tomorrow and the day after tomorrow,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Why I'm an artist, not a philosopher? Because I think in words rather than ideas.” — Albert Camus 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
A philosopher goes where the truth leads and has no patience with mere emotion. — John C. Wright Copy Share Image
Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
