Last night I dreamed I went to hillbilly heaven and you know who greeted me at the gate? The ole cowboy-philosopher himself,… — Tex Ritter Copy Share Image
Was it not the great philosopher and mathematician Leibnitz who said that the more knowledge advances the more it becomes possible to… — J. Arthur Thomson Copy Share Image
Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than this. — Plato Copy Share Image
A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place. — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
When you make music you are acting as a philosopher. You can either do that consciously or you can do it unconsciously,… — John Cage Copy Share Image
I have said my philosophy - I'm a backyard philosopher, I guess - is that the dirtiest word in the English language… — Frank Sinatra, Jr Copy Share Image
“He said that the only decent German philosopher was Lichtenberg, who was less a philosopher than the ultimate jokester and clown.” — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Just like how most if not all poor boys look up to and aspire to someday be rich men, most if not… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
People can be teachers and idiots; they can be philosophers and idiots; they can be politicians and idiots... in fact I think… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
The inspiration of a single book has made preachers, poets, philosophers, authors, and statesmen. On the other hand, the demoralization of a… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Wherefore all theology, when separated from Christ, is not only vain and confused, but is also mad, deceitful, and spurious; for, though… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
My primary object is to defend and advance a principle in which I see the only possible relief from much that enthralls… — Henry George Copy Share Image
As a bio-philosopher - as someone who draws upon the scriptures of nature, recognizing that we are the product of the process… — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
Every soul, the philosopher says, is involuntarily deprived of truth; consequently in the same way it is deprived of justice and temperance… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
When we seek a textbook case for the proper operation of science, the correction of certain error offers far more promise than… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I spent on the Other Earth many "other years," wandering from mind to mind and country to country, but I did not… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of the philosopher, and laughed over… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Some philosophers are drawn to the subject [of philosophy] via their interest in the nature and structure of the world external to… — Jason Stanley Copy Share Image
“Descartes' Meditations; doubt rise and results in clear and distinct ideas. all in the mind and all innate. Spinoza bakes the best… — Aporva Kala Copy Share Image
The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatures… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
When the boy begins to understand that the visible point is preceded by an invisible point, that the shortest distance between two… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A cleric who loses his faith abandons his calling; a philosopher who loses his redefines his subject. — Ernest Gellner Copy Share Image
By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you will be happy. If you get a bad one, youll become… — Socrates Copy Share Image
If you will take my advice you will think little of Socrates, and a great deal more of truth. — Socrates Copy Share Image
Though philosophers like to define poetry as irrational fancy, for us it is practical, humorous, reasonable way of being ourselves. — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Take time for good books; time to absorb the thoughts of poets and philosophers, seers and prophets. — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
“Being a stoic does not mean being a robot. Being a stoic means remaining calm both at the height of pleasure and… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“You don’t need schooling to be a philosopher. Just an active mind and experience with life.” — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Philosophers and aestheticians may offer elegant and profound definitions of art and beauty, but for the painter they are all summed up… — Gino Severini Copy Share Image
Anytime you see a Hungarian, kick him. He'll know why. Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
'But the man who is ready to taste every form of knowledge, is glad to learn and never satisfied - he's the… — Plato Copy Share Image
[W]here other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Throughout the whole of life one must continue to learn to live and what will amaze you even more, throughout life you… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I thought of the words of the Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne. "If you press me to say why I loved him,… — Josh Lanyon Copy Share Image
A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
The German philosopher Walter Benjamin had the curious notion that we could change the past. For most of us, the past is… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
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