“The world economy would collapse if a significant number of people were to realize and then act on the realization that it… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“Sometimes your fall is not caused by your enemies, but it is caused by your stupid actions, behavior, and bad attitude.” — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
The human race will have no respite from evils until those who are really philosophers acquire political power or until, through some… — Plato Copy Share Image
There is no record in human history of a happy philosopher: they exist only in romantic legend. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I see the beauty of Mike's attempt to devise an ideal ethic and applaud his recognition that such must start by junking… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Modern historians are all would-be philosophers; who, instead of relating facts as they occurred, give us their version, or rather perversions of… — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
Bad philosophers may have a certain influence; good philosophers, never. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Philosophers have often looked for the defining feature of humans — language, rationality, culture, and so on. I'd stick with this: Man… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
You will not find the warrior, the poet, the philosopher or the Christian by staring into his eyes as if he were… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Very few, even among those who have taken the keenest interest in the progress of the revolution in natural knowledge set afoot… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
Professional philosophers are usually only apologists: that is, they are absorbed in defending some vested illusion or some eloquent idea. Like lawyers… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it's better to walk ALONE than to be in the crowd where you are not Respected and Accepted! ` Nana Adu-Boafo… — Nana Adu-Boafo Jnr Copy Share Image
The master-economist must possess a rare combination of gifts. He must reach a high standard in several different directions and must combine… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
I have a general moral: great philosophers may be great, but that is not a reason to follow them. Don't be a… — Tim Crane Copy Share Image
Put the world's greatest philosopher on a plank that is wider than need be; if there is a precipe below, although his… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The philosopher Elaine Scarry has observed that "beauty always takes place in the particular." Cruelty, on the other hand, prefers abstraction. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
A farmer, a hunter, a soldier, a reporter, even a philosopher, may be daunted; but nothing can deter a poet, for he… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Life is just a series of peaks and troughs, and you don't whether you're in a trough until you're climbing out, or… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
Oh, most magnificent and noble Nature! Have I not worshipped thee with such a love As never mortal man before displayed? Adored… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
To this principle of vanity, which philosophers call a mean one, and which I do not, I owe a great part of… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The continual pursuit of meanings-wider, clearer, more negotiable, more articulate meanings- is philosophy. — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
The Oriental philosophy approaches easily loftier themes than the modern aspires to; and no wonder if it sometimes prattle about them. It… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected… — Plato Copy Share Image
