Know that the philosopher has power over the stars, and not the stars over him. — Paracelsus Copy Share Image
“Mr. Pickwick was a philosopher, but philosophers are only men in armour, after all.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Philosophers are as jealous as woman; each wants a monopoly of praise. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
If Socrates died like a philosopher, Jesus Christ died like a God. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
My definition (of a philosopher) is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
“A philosopher who uses his professional competence for anything other except a disinterested search for truth is guilty of a kind of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I have never come across someone who could inspire more respect than the Greek philosophers. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit. — Laozi Copy Share Image
Each philosopher, each bard, each actor has only done for me, as by a delegate, what one day I can do for… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A philosopher is a person who doesn't care which side his bread is buttered on; he knows he eats both sides anyway. — Joyce Brothers Copy Share Image
Shall I show you the sinews of a philosopher? What sinews are those? - A will undisappointed; evils avoided; powers daily exercised;… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
I'm really clear about what my life mission is now. There's no more depression or lethargy, and I feel like I've returned… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
“He thought to himself how, in some future time, when these formidable scientific inventions would have changed the face of the earth,… — John Cowper Powy's i Wolf Solent i Copy Share Image
The only thing that feeling bad accomplishes is to plummet you into anxiety, despair, depression, and stress. In such situations, ask yourself… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Like the alchemist of old, for ever searching for the philosopher's stone, the analyst to-day never stops looking for stronger moves to… — Savielly Tartakower Copy Share Image
Les vrais philosophes sont comme les e le phants, qui en marchant ne posent jamais le second pied a' terre que le… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
According to Democritus, truth lies at the bottom of a well, the water of which serves as a mirror in which objects… — Charles Francis Richter Copy Share Image
Philosophy is a bully that talks loud when the danger is at a distant; but, the moment she is pressed hard by… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There was a German philosopher who is very well known, his name was Immanuel Kant, and he said there are two things… — John Cage Copy Share Image
Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggler, and whose art is the art of patching and… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Pathology, probably more than any other branch of science, suffers from heroes and hero-worship. Rudolf Virchow has been its archangel and William… — Harry S.N. Greene Copy Share Image
The men who are not interested in philosophy need it most urgently: they are most helplessly in its power. The men who… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“philosopher has given a rational, objectively demonstrable, scientific answer to the question of why man needs a code of values. So long… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“For we conceive it as the aim of a philosopher, as such, to do somewhat more than define and formulate the common… — Henry Sidgwick Copy Share Image
“The task of the moral philosopher-thinker is to support and strengthen the voice of human conscience, to recognize what is good or… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Abstract reason, formerly the servant of practical human reasons, has everywhere become its master, and denies poetry any excuse for existence. Though… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Of course, there remains the question of why we should find mind-brain identities so persistently counter-intuitive, if they are true. But this… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
Philosophy has a fine saying for everything.-For Death it has an entire set. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Children are the only brave philosophers. And brave philosophers are, inevitably, children. — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind. — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
I was a poet animated by philosophy, not a philosopher with poetic faculties. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
