If thou canst see sharp, look and judge wisely, says the philosopher. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“When I read, I was a philosopher and it was up to me to figure out the meaning of things. Reading made… — Heather O'Neill Copy Share Image
Some philosophers see into themselves, and some into their times; still others forge an alliance with the future. — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
When men abandon reason, physical force becomes their only means of dealing with one another and of settling disagreements. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Although according to certain philosophers it is quite difficult to distinguish the jester from the melancholic, life itself being a comic drama… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A pipe is a pocket philosopher,--a truer one than Socrates, for it never asks questions. Socrates must have been very tiresome, when… — Ouida Copy Share Image
A philosopher of imposing stature doesn't think in a vacuum. Even his most abstract ideas are, to some extent, conditioned by what… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Philosophy is not one truth, but thousands of truths. You don't have to believe in just one thing. When you chose one… — Marcel Wanders 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
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
“The king! I thought he was philosopher enough to allow that there was no murder in politics. In politics, my dear fellow,… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Although many philosophers used to dismiss the relevance of neuroscience on grounds that what mattered was the software, not the hardware, increasingly… — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
The law of causality, I believe, like much that passes muster among philosophers, is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In the entire first Christian century Jesus is not mentioned by a single Greek or Roman historian, religion scholar, politician, philosopher or… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. The great philosophers have always been able to clear away… — Anonymous 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
Modern civilization is largely devoted to the pursuit of the cult of delusion. There is no general information about the nature of… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
To the best of my recollection, I became a philosopher because my parents wanted me to become a lawyer. It seems to… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
The knowledge that is suited to our situation and powers, the whole compass of moral, natural, and mathematical science, was neglected by… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
In addition to pumping the blood of life within our bodies, we may think of the heart as a belief-to-matter translator. It… — Gregg Braden Copy Share Image
But concerning vision alone is a separate science formed among philosophers, namely, optics, and not concerning any other sense ... It is… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
Philosopher: A masochistic fool who will be considered a genius once dead. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Until philosophers hold power, neither states nor individuals will have rest from trouble. — Plato Copy Share Image
Welders make more money than philosophers. We need more welders and less philosophers. — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image