“I was a big philosopher when I saw on the chamber pot. I liked to sit and think and listen.” — Krystyna Chiger with Daniel Paisner Copy Share Image
I'm the best promoter in the world because I haven't taken a day off work since I left the penitentiary, and because… — Don King Copy Share Image
“surely you’re enough of an armchair philosopher to realize that everything is a reconstruction of something else? Reality is a desperate and… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
Fire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars. I will not forget thy… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The visible world was only an imperfect reflection of the Ideal, which the Philosopher sought to transcend. — Marion Zimmer Bradley Copy Share Image
These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected… — Plato Copy Share Image
The chickadee and nuthatch are more inspiring society than statesmen and philosophers, and we shall return to these last as to more… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When I was 16 I started keeping a diary in which I recorded my disagreements with the famous philosophers. I didn't insist… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
“The history of philosophy is, to a great extent, that of a certain clash of human temperaments…Of whatever temperament a philosopher is,… — William James Copy Share Image
The Quest of the Holy Grail, the Search for the Stone of the Philosophers-by whatever name we choose to call the Great… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
The corporations plainly want academic scholarship to create a web of mystification that will avoid any public awareness of the way in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“The most upsetting thing about Society’s attitude towards disabled people is that many millions of disabled people became disabled while trying to… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
There are certainly times in history where power associates itself closely with fields that we would call the humanities, like rulers surrounding… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
There will be no end to the troubles of states,Or of humanity itself,Till philosophers become kings in this world,Or till those we… — Plato Copy Share Image
“Like a certain philosopher I would, upon my soul, have all young men from eighteen to twenty-five kept under barrels; seeing how… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
I may have been prejudiced against lawyer members of Congress, having run against one or two and having been threatened politically by… — Eugene McCarthy Copy Share Image
Gary Greenberg is a thoughtful comedian and a cranky philosopher and a humble pest of a reporter, equal parts Woody Allen, Kierkegaard,… — Gideon Lewis-Kraus Copy Share Image
17th century philosophers were not in a position to understand the mind as well as we can today, since the advent of… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
The philosopher stands at his desk in the lecture hall, and demonstrates away the soul of man, and with exact thought measures… — Ouida Copy Share Image
It's strange that in an age when we pride ourselves on our independence of thought we meekly submit without further question to… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
“Books are supposed to give a helping hand to humanity’s progress, not to instruct humanity how to progress. Plato wrote his books… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The greatest artists, saints, philosophers, and, until quite recent times, scientists... have all assumed that the New Testament promise of eternal life… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Between the villages of Aubiere and Romagnat in the ancient Province of Auvergne there is an old road that comes suddenly over… — Hervey Allen Copy Share Image
“Democracy should always be viewed with a philosophical perspective rather than a political one, because after all democracy was born to a… — Aysha Taryam Copy Share Image
“As an unavoidable result of the inevitable loss of some physical and/or some mental abilities, many a man who has been alive… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
If true happiness depended on the thoughts of man, then all philosophers and deep thinkers would be filled to overflowing with it. — Sadhu Sundar Singh Copy Share Image
If I had my way there would be a philosopher sitting round the table on every committee and in every boardroom. — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
If what charms you is nothing but abstract principles, sit down and turn them over quietly in your mind: but never dub… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
By legend and perhaps by nature philosophers are more accustomed to the armchair than the workbench. — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
To philosopher and historian the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events. — David Hume Copy Share Image
Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum -- "I think that I think, therefore I think that I am;" as close an approach to… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“O wayfarer! Yearn finds quench, not in meadows, seashores or altitude of mountain peaks; but when being and dance are one.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
Like true philosophers I've come to believe that religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown after proper education. — Josh Lanyon Copy Share Image
To a philosopher like Nietzsche, the Jew is culpable not for rejecting Christianity but for inventing it. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
It is as absurd to expect members of philosophy departments to be philosophers as it is to expect members of art departments… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
Well, I see I am not designed to the finding out the Philosophers Stone, I have been so unlucky in my first… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
Philosophers, especially metaphysicians, explore features of reality and of our mental life that are different from those explored by scientists. — L.A. Paul Copy Share Image
Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what… — Ed Smith Copy Share Image
A philosopher always finds more grass to feed upon in the valleys of stupidity than on the arid heights of intelligence. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
