It has been said by a distinguished philosopher that England is "usually the last to enter into the general movement of the… — Isaac Todhunter 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
Saying “I'll try” means our soul isn't really in it. We tell ourselves “I'll try” when our inflated egos won't come clean… — Chris Powell Copy Share Image
Like the alchemist of old, for ever searching for the philosopher's stone, the analyst to-day never stops looking for stronger moves to… — Savielly Tartakower Copy Share Image
“I don't claim to know all the answers but I can be your friend, philosopher, and guide.” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
Unless we consent to lack the common things which men call success, we shall hardly become heroes or saints, philosophers or poets. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
“I watch Fox news for the comedy, MSNBC when I need to be reminded that mind midgets exist and CNN when I… — James Scott, Senior Fellow, The Center for Cyber Influence Operations Studies (CCIOS Copy Share Image
It is generally agreed by philosophers of science that important contributions which have a revolutionary impact on science are often methodologically inadequate,… — Hans Eysenck Copy Share Image
Ideal goals are a menace in themselves, as much in more modern philosophers as in Plato. — Moses Finley Copy Share Image
Someone once quoted Shakespeare to the philosopher W. V. O. Quine: There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt… — Chet Raymo 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
Hold fast, therefore, O circular philosopher, to thy centre, and drive the globe along its orbit by the momentum of thy thought. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
They [intellectuals] coined most of the slogans that guided the butcheries of Bolshevism, Fascism, and Nazism. Intellectuals extolling the delights of murder,… — Ludwig von Mises 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
The man of science, the artist, the philosopher are attached to their nations as much as the day-laborer and the merchant. — Julien Benda 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
love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Plato assumes somehow that government is a way in which you put unselfish and ungreedy men in charge of selfish and greedy… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The task of the political philosopher can only be to influence public opinion, not to organize people for action. He will do… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Five hundred years before Christ was born, the Greek philosopher Heraclitus told his students that "everything changes except the law of change".… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
These 'philosophers', etc., seem unaware, to give a specific example, that by teaching and preaching 'identity', which is empirically non-existent in this… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
Let us be dreamers, thinkers, speculative philosophers, or as our spouses would have it: Idiots — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image