Saints cannot arise where there have been no warriors, nor philosophers where a prying beast does not remain hidden in the depths. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A great philosopher in the wrong is like a beacon on the reefs which says to seamen: steer clear of me. — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
Being a professional philosopher is, I would say, feeling natural to think about small and great problems. It is the only pleasure. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Although they probably know that some children were used and some children are used as miners, most adults are ignorant of the… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
It is good to renew one's wonder, said the philosopher. Space travel has again made children of us all. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. — Socrates Copy Share Image
“This seems plainly absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities. One” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If we contrast the rapid progress of this mischievous discovery [gunpowder] with the slow and laborious advances of reason, science, and the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Whereas many philosophers and theologians appear to possess an emotional attachment to their theories and ideas…scientists feel no qualms about suggesting different… — Frank J. Tipler Copy Share Image
Man's ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
We use and need to use both systems in complex political societies, and we oscillate in our commitments, because both oligarchy and… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
Science has now confirmed what philosophers, mystics, and other intuitive people have long declared: every human being has been literally "engineered for… — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
The doctrine (of) maintaining that the language of daily life, with words used in their ordinary meanings, suffices for philosophy . .… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Daniel Dennett is our best current philosopher. He is the next Bertrand Russell. Unlike traditional philosophers, Dan is a student of neuroscience,… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
A universal peace, it is to be feared, is in the catalogue of events, which will never exist but in the imaginations… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Various accounts of Empedocle's death are given in ancient sources. His enemies said that his desire to be thought a god led… — Empedocles Copy Share Image
There has certainly been a great deal of work addressing the relationship between naturalism and the first-person perspective. Quite a number of… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
I also realized that the philosophers, far from ridding me of my vain doubts, only multiplied the doubts that tormented me and… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Golden Verses So-called because they are "good as gold." They are by some attributed to Epicarmos, and by others to Empedocles, but… — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
“Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
By the respectable terms of the modern literary profession, novelists do not preach. And, in fact, there has probably not been a… — Claudia Roth Pierpont Copy Share Image
No justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous. Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Philosophers, if they have much imagination, are apt to let it loose as well as other people, and in such cases are… — Granville Penn Copy Share Image
...To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage — Plutarch Copy Share Image
It's no use trying to talk philosophy to our politicians. And I'm not a moral or political philosopher. I'm not interested in… — Marjorie Grene Copy Share Image
A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For us scientists, on the other wing, life is not quite so simple. Because we learn the unknown. Unlike, hah-hah, our esteemed… — Ken MacLeod Copy Share Image
This man has conquered the world! What have you done?" The philosopher replied without an instant's hesitation, "I have conquered the need… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition! — William James Copy Share Image
It's hard for me to imagine a philosopher disconnected from the world, indifferent to the cares of his country, unmoved by poverty,… — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
Philosophers are never happy here. Now is not their time, and here is not their space. They live there, they live somewhere… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I have decided, it is fruitless. For I am no longer sure of anything concerning my existance. A philosopher is a dead… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Do not Christians and Heathens, Jews and Gentiles, poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences? — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
A couturier must be an architect for design, a sculptor for shape, a painter for color, a musician for harmony, and a… — Cristobal Balenciaga Copy Share Image
Herbert Spencer is little read now. Philosophers do not regard him as a major thinker. Social Darwinism has long been in disrepute. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
I call myself an experimental philosopher which is as ambiguous a term as comprehensive anticipatory design scientist. — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
A man can deceive his fiancee or his mistress as much as he likes and, in the eyes of a woman he… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
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