The neuroscience of consciousness is not going to stop in its tracks because some philosophers guesses that project cannot be productive. — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
In a world of universal poverty The philosophers alone will be fat Against the autumn winds In an autumn that will be… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
He who has lived as a true philosopher has reason to be of good cheer when he is about to die, and… — Socrates Copy Share Image
You can argue with a philosopher, but you can’t argue with a good song. And I think I’ve got a few good… — Cat Stevens Copy Share Image
( ...philosophy is more often the systematization of the prejudices of philosophers than the systematization of nature.) Distrust all generalizations: stick to… — Epifanio de los Santos Copy Share Image
Mrs. Wiggs was a philosopher, and the sum and substance of her philosophy lay in keeping the dust off her rose-colored spectacles. — Alice Hegan Rice Copy Share Image
Philosophers of science have repeatedly demonstrated that more than one theoretical construction can always be placed upon a given collection of data. — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
Like the philosopher, the author views his task as one of establishing a clear connection between life and history, and of making… — Lion Feuchtwanger Copy Share Image
When it was first said that the sun stood still and world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
It was a strange man, a kind of black humorist, a true philosopher. One day he said: "If my books could ensure… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
If the God of revelation is most appropriately worshipped in the temple of religion, the God of nature may be equally honored… — David Brewster Copy Share Image
The grand reason of the burst of public sentiment in anathemas upon Christ and his disciples, causing his crucifixion, was evidently based… — Jedediah M. Grant Copy Share Image
Socrates ... is the first philosopher of life [Lebensphilosoph], ... Thinking serves life, while among all previous philosophers life had served thought… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Philosophers and psychiatrists should explain why it is that we mathematicians are in the habit of systematically erasing our footsteps. Scientists have… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
“Yangi, a philosopher, art historian and poet, had evolved a theory of why some objects - pots, baskets, cloth made by unknown… — Edmund de Waal Copy Share Image
Many people have thought of me as a thinker, as a philosopher, or even as a mystic. Well the truth is that… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Biographers are not usually as explicit as philosophers such as Plato, Wittgenstein, Austin, or Moore on questions of the existence of an… — Hermione Lee Copy Share Image
“Philosophy, then, is not a doctrine, not some simplistic scheme for orienting oneself in the world, certainly not an instrument or achievement… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
That is the first thing to learn — not to seek. When you seek you are really only window-shopping. The question of… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
If you set your heart upon philosophy, you must straightway prepare yourself to be laughed at and mocked by many who will… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
It might be suggested, and not easily disproven that anything, no matter how exotic, can be believed by someone. On the other… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
There may have been somewhere, as a few eighteenth-century philosophers dreamed, a group of peaceful men who got together one evening after… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
When, therefore, I had long considered this uncertainty of traditional mathematics, it began to weary me that no more definite explanation of… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
It was precisely this notion of infinite series which in the sixth century BC led the Greek philosopher Zeno to conclude that… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Even philosophers who did not mind psychology, claimed the brain was irrelevant because it was the hardware, and we only need to… — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
“By all means, marry, I told him. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one,… — Jeff Wheeler Copy Share Image
“When Zeno received news of a shipwreck and heard that all his luggage had been sunk he said, 'Fortune bids me to… — Seneca Copy Share Image
In the words of the philosopher Sceptum, the founder of my profession: am I going to get paid for this? — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The greatest philosopher of all time was Dirty Harry. And if you remember, Dirty Harry took the words right out of my… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
It would be no reproach to a philosopher, that he knew the future better than the past, or even than the present.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I believe in magic ... There is magic in the creative faculty such as great poets and philosophers conspicuously possess, and equally… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
All philosophers should end their days at Pythia’s feet. There is only one philosophy, that of unique moments. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“By all means marry. If you get a good spouse you'll become happy, while if you get a bad one you'll become… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Philosophers and common heathen believed one God, to whom all things were referred; but under this God they worshipped many inferior and… — Benjamin Stillingfleet Copy Share Image
The palmist looks at the wrinkles made by closing the hand and says they signify character. The philosopher reads character by what… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
This is a question too difficult for a mathematician. It should be asked of a philosopher"(when asked about completing his income tax… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“The philosopher Karl Popper (1902–94) often remarked “We don’t know anything” and believed that this was the most important philosophical truth.16” — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Christianity is at its purest a philosophy about a person, Jesus Christ, and at its dirtiest a philosophy about requirements and law.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The picture which the philosopher draws of the world is surely not one in which every stroke is necessitated by pure logic. — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
A German philosopher once wrote that he who fights monsters must take care that he doesn't become one himself. — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
![“When it was first said that the sun stood still and world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine false; but the old saying of Vox populi, vox Dei [the voice of the people is the voice of God], as every philosopher knows, cannot be trusted in science.” quote by Charles Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5f6/charles-darwin-507_agnosticism_when-it-was-first-said-that-the-sun-stoo_226722.jpg)
![“Socrates ... is the first philosopher of life [Lebensphilosoph], ... Thinking serves life, while among all previous philosophers life had served thought and knowledge. ... Thus Socratic philosophy is absolutely practical: it is hostile to all knowledge unconnected to ethical implications.” quote by Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1f7/friedrich-nietzsche-15_ethical_socrates-is-the-first-philosopher-of-lif_1970084.jpg)
