Only when one thinks even much more madly than the philosophers can one solve their problems. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
“The options available to a creative person are ever limited by the choices offered by a philosopher.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers. — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
“A poet expresses with a few words, what a philosopher means with many.” — Stephen McDonough 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
And Numenius, the Pythagorean philosopher, expressly writes: 'For what is Plato, but Moses speaking in Attic Greek.' — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
Contemporary philosophers, even the rationalistic minded ones, have on the whole agreed that no one has intelligibly banished the mystery of fact. — William James 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
[Benjamin] Franklin may be a great philosopher, [John Adams] told his diary in 1779, but "as a Legislator in America he has… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
“Taking him for all and all, I think it will be conceded that Michael Faraday was the greatest experimental philosopher the world… — John Tyndall Copy Share Image
“Our endurance and suffering made us stronger than they can imagine. We became so strong that it takes only one of our… — De philosopher DJ Kyos 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
O sweet spontaneous earth how often have the doting fingers of prurient philosophers pinched and poked thee ,has the naughty thumb of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Only philosophers embark on this perilous expedition to the outermost reaches of language and existence. Some of them fall off, but others… — Jostein Gaarder 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
“I am very much aware of the fact that there would come people who would attempt to proclaim me being a reincarnation… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Upon the whole, I am inclined to think that the far greater part, if not all, of those difficulties which have hitherto… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
I had a friend in college who loved to say: 'If you can dream it, you can do it.' It became my… — Michele Gorman Copy Share Image
Mystical experiences (unlike scientific conclusions) cannot be communicated from one person to another. Philosophers and little children are continually amazed that we,… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
When philosophers talk about reason they often have in mind Having been in the business of philosophy more than half my life,… — Kwame Anthony Appiah Copy Share Image
Political dissension is doubtless a less evil than the lethargy of despotism: but still it is a great evil, and it would… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The true wisdom of the philosopher ought to insist in enjoying everything. Yet we apply ourselves to dissecting and destroying everything that… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
Look at them. There are your true philosophers. I think that Mack and the boys know everything that has ever happened in… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Wonder acts upon a man like a shock, he is "moved" and "shaken", and in the dislocation that succeeds all that he… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
“Philosophy deals in the abstract and the universal, but not in the particular. History deals only in the particular, not with general… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Philosophers stretch the meaning of words until they retain scarcely anything of their original sense. They give the name of "God" to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
There have been a number of philosophers who have reveled in the dismantling of truth. I think they did so with good… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image