I'm not a military general, a business guru, not a philosopher or author. It's only me. — Vin Scully Copy Share Image
“It is the nature of my dreams that determine the fabric of my existence - rjs” — rassool jibraeel snyman Copy Share Image
Bad philosophers may have a certain influence; good philosophers, never. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is now no mystery that some quite influential philosophers were mentally ill. — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
“Ability does catches my attention, but its a politeness in the person that I remember.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
I could be wrong. Not being certain is what being a philosopher is all about. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
It has often been said, and certainly not without justification, that the man of science is a poor philosopher. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Spending that many hours in the saddle gave a man plenty of time to think. That's why so many cowboys fancied themselves… — Charles Marion Russell Copy Share Image
The savage lives simply through ignorance and idleness or laziness, but the philosopher lives simply through wisdom. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hold fast, therefore, O circular philosopher, to thy centre, and drive the globe along its orbit by the momentum of thy thought. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
Every child's bedroom is as important as a telescope orbiting the planet earth or a philosopher's study. — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
What verse is for the poet, dialectical thinking is for the philosopher. He grasps for it in order to get hold of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Has a philosopher like you failed to discover that our country is more to be valued and higher and holier far than… — Socrates Copy Share Image
I became a virtuoso of deceit. It wasn't pleasure I was after, it was knowledge. I consulted the strictest moralists to learn… — Christopher Hampton Copy Share Image
“According to the philosopher Andre Comte-Sponville: The wise man has nothing left to expect or to hope for. Because he is entirely… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
Scientists are people of very dissimilar temperaments doing different things in very different ways. Among scientists are collectors, classifiers and compulsive tidiers-up;… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Let divines and philosophers, statesmen and patriots, unite their endeavors to renovate the age by impressing the minds of men with the… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
“Music and Dancing, not only give great pleasure but have the honour of depending on Mathematics, for they consist in number and… — Charles Sorel Copy Share Image
As long as I'm dealing in honesty, I may as well admit that I have been more influenced (as a person) by… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
Philosophy, certainly, is some account of truths the fragments and very insignificant parts of which man will practice in this workshop; truths… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The great masses of people do not consist of philosophers; precisely for the masses, faith is often the sole foundation of a… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Recent breakthroughs in science show we have just the capacities we need to face our planet's challenges. We're "soft-wired" for cooperation, empathy,… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
Development of Western science is based on two great achievements: the invention of the formal logical system (in Euclidean geometry) by the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
As a philosopher, if I were speaking to a purely philosophic audience I should say that I ought to describe myself as… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Here we are at the very core of the thesis we wish to defend in the present essay: reverie is under the… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
In this land of unlimited opportunity, a place where, to paraphrase Woody Allen, any man or woman can realize greatness as a… — Vincent Canby Copy Share Image
It is well, when the wise and the learned discover new truths; but how much better to diffuse the truths already discovered,… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Incompatibilists will tell you that a work of art has no meaning unless the artists could have chosen to create a different… — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
Comedians are thinkers. The best ones are akin to philosophers, in my opinion. — Ted Alexandro Copy Share Image
The failure of the past philosophers is largely the failure to see the self-evident. — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
“Which is better off, a lizard basking in the sun or a philosopher?” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“your philosopher simply plays on abstract terms and empty words.” — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image