I am only a philosopher, and there is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do, and that… — William James Copy Share Image
I'm not a philosopher. I don't pretend to be a philosopher. I'm not a student of philosophy. — Laurence Fishburne Copy Share Image
The Democrats believe they need more of your money to spend because they can spend it better than you can. But you… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
To test a perfect theory with imperfect instruments did not impress the Greek philosophers as a valid way to gain knowledge. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Since the time of Plato and Aristotle philosophers have had an interest in taking note of common fallacies in reasoning. — Randal Marlin Copy Share Image
“I dont celebrate any friendship that was build on hate, because we share the common enemy.” — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
The philosopher spends in becoming a man the time which the ambitious man spends in becoming a personage. — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln was not philosopher, exactly. But he did have a strong mind, which sought generalizations as well as particulars. He had… — William Lee Miller Copy Share Image
He raged for hours. And the skeleton, ever the frail and solelmn philosopher, hung quietly inside, saying not a word, suspended like… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Philosophers do need to have intuitions of various specific sorts: ethical, metaphysical, etc., depending on their targeted subject matter. And they must… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
Theoretical scientists who probe the secrets of the universe and philosophers who seek answers to existence, as well as painters such as… — Wynn Bullock Copy Share Image
Fuzzy thinking is, after all, just one step above not thinking at all. But to take the ideas of serious transformational thinkers… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I worry that we don't currently have a democracy in the United States. Instead we have what [political philosopher] Sheldon Wolin has… — Thomas L. Dumm Copy Share Image
Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The place that does Contain my books, the best companions, is To me a glorious court, where hourly I Converse with the,… — John William Fletcher Copy Share Image
It is thus hardly surprising that so many of the great minds in recent history have concerned themselves with economic matters. Indeed,… — Paul Zane Pilzer Copy Share Image
Each one of us pray, day and night, for the downtrodden millions in India, who are held fast by poverty, priest craft,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The denial of any distinction between foreseen and intended consequences, as far as responsibility is concerned, was not made by Sidgwick in… — G. E. M. Anscombe Copy Share Image
“A philosopher,' said Mrs. Cantanker, stalking across the study, black heels clicking, ruby silks whispering around her ankles, 'is one who attempts… — Stefan Bachmann Copy Share Image
“You can’t tolerate a decent and swift conclusion to a skirmish between an individual and what you call society, as long as… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
“It goes without saying that even those of us who are going to hell will get eternal life—if that territory really exists… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The absolutist lays down the law, but the relativist hears only roaring and bawling. Or, when the relativist voice, as it is… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
In times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings--artists, scientists, clowns and philosophers--to create… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“I suppose that, so long as the human mind exists, it will not escape its deep-seated instinct to personify its intellectual conceptions.… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
Philosophers have often looked for the defining feature of humans — language, rationality, culture, and so on. I'd stick with this: Man… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
Philosophers and theologians have yet to learn that a physical fact is as sacred as a moral principle. Our own nature demands… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
The philosopher says that God's knowledge is the measure of things, and that things are the measure of man's knowledge. — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
As our domestic fowls are said to have their original in the wild pheasant of India, so our domestic thoughts have their… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is no place in the world, I imagine, for a philosopher with a sense of humor, a new leisure, and an… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
“that he live in all respects so compactly and preparedly that, if an enemy take the town, he can, like the old… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
O charitable philosopher, I beg you to help me. My mind is weak but my soul is strong. Kindle that soul, and… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Philosophers play with the word, like a child with a doll… It does not mean that everything in life is relative. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Technically, you cannot really own a book you bought; you can only own the sheets of paper your copy is printed on;… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity. The ignorant peasant without fault is greater than the philosopher with many. What is… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be,… — Imre Lakatos Copy Share Image
“Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
A philosopher once said, 'It is necessary for the very existence of science that the same conditions always produce the same results.'… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Nature will not be Buddhist: she resents generalizing, and insults the philosopher in every moment with a million fresh particulars. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“In some cases, you can tell how somebody is being treated by their own boss from the way they are treating someone… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
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