“If you are not like me then you are not me. I am a great philosopher!” — Maher Osman 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
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
“Some of the best things that have ever happened to us wouldn’t have happened to us, if it weren’t for some of… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Can an ass be tragic?To perish under a burden that one can neither bear nor cast off? The case of the philosopher. — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
By renouncing the Bible, philosophers swing from their moorings upon all moral subjects..It is the only correct map of the human heart… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers. — Luc de Clapiers 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
Out of Frederic Remington's Sundown Leflare graved on the mantel. Sundown and another mountain man cooked and ate their supper. "Then," says… — J. Frank Dobie Copy Share Image
In stark contrast with the views of the Greek philosophers and with those of the rest of western intellectuals to the present… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Cold completely introspective logic places a philosopher on the road to the abstract. Out of this empty, artificial act of thinking there… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
When they can't win a debate (can they ever?), leftists deploy what the late novelist/philosopher Ayn Rand called the argument from intimidation.… — Don Feder Copy Share Image
When the mind opens by speaking denials, this true Self that philosophers have so long striven to free shows itself all glorious… — Myrtle Fillmore Copy Share Image
Children are the boldest philosophers. They enter life naked, not covered by the smallest fig leaf of dogma, absolutes, creeds. This is… — Yevgeny Zamyatin 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
With respect to ingenious subconsciousness, I think, philosophers might well rival poets. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher! — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
The ideal state for a philosopher, indeed, is celibacy tempered by polygamy. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Avoiding problems you need to face is avoiding the life you need to live. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
