Philosopher Quotes · Page 33

I mean it as a compliment when I say that you could almost define a philosopher as someone who won't take common…

— Richard Dawkins

“If you opened the dictionary and searched for the meaning of a Goddess, you would find the reflection of a dancing lady.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

I think a lot of philosophers get so absorbed and distracted from the real matters of the world that they get lost…

— Pam Gems

Indeed, the distribution of wealth is too important an issue to be left to economists, sociologists, historians, and philosophers.

— Thomas Piketty

“The Fur Person learned then and there that it is better to be a philosopher than to be a king and that,…

— May Sarton

What I understand by "philosopher": a terrible explosive in the presence of which everything is in danger.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The classifications made by philosophers and psychologists are like trying to classify clouds by their shape.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

I think, when people hear the word 'philosophy,' they think of Plato and a bunch of people sitting around in their robes…

— Shannon Lee

I was occupied by a range of questions, often different from those fashionable in the professional philosophy of the past half century,…

— Philip Kitcher

Of course, I strongly sympathized with Habermas and the philosophers representing the Frankfurt school, but I also saw the lack of conceptual…

— Thomas Metzinger

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and nearly all that is undetected…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

The code of Manu differs from the bible. By means of it the nobles, the philosophers, and the warriors keep the whip…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The fact that the person who you are sleeping with is also sleeping with another person or other people does not necessarily…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Religious life is about something real in human experience that is not constrained by what Wittgenstein called 'all that is the case'.…

— George Pattison

“Not that I would not, if I could, be both handsome and fat and well-dressed, and a great athlete, and make a…

— William James

It is a fool only, and not the philosopher, nor even the prudent man, that will live as if there were no…

— Thomas Paine

The great masses of people do not consist of philosophers; precisely for the masses, [religious] faith is often the sole foundation of…

— Adolf Hitler

And now, my friend, I am going to expose to you all my weaknesses. All men, I believe, are under a necessity…

— Peter Abelard

On foundations we believe in the reality of mathematics, but of course, when philosophers attack us with their paradoxes, we rush to…

— Jean Dieudonne

As the great philosopher George Santayana would have said, 'those who cannot remember the past . . . should simply read Jan…

— Mo Rocca

I have observed that male writers tend to get asked what they think and women what they feel. In my experience, and…

— Eleanor Catton

Oh, why does compassion weaken us?' It doesn't, really...Somewhere where it all balances out-don't the philosophers have a name for it, the…

— Robin McKinley

A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are…

— Jane Goldman

Moralists and philosophers have adjudged those who throw temptation in the way of the erring, equally guilty with those who are thereby…

— Mark Twain

What a pity that 'nothingness' has been devalued by an abuse of it made by philosophers unworthy of it!

— Emile M. Cioran

The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Bertrand Russell started off as a mathematician and then degenerated into a philosopher and finally into a humanist; he went downhill rapidly!

— Gregory Chaitin

Einstein, my upset stomach hates your theory [of General Relativity]—it almost hates you yourself! How am I to' provide for my students?…

— Paul Ehrenfest

The technology [semiconductors] which has transformed practical existence is largely an application of what was discovered by these allegedly irresponsible [natural] philosophers.

— Cyril Norman Hinshelwood

I am no metaphysician, no philosopher, nay, no saint. But I am poor and I love the poor. I see what they…

— Swami Vivekananda

All are sure in their days except the most wise ... He is the wisest philosopher who holds his theory with some doubt.

— Michael Faraday

Philosophers are often like little children, who first scribble random lines on a piece of paper with their pencils, and now ask…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

A philosopher once noted that people long for immortality but run out of things to do on a rainy afternoon.

— David Niven

“I don’t know where being a servant came into disrepute. It is the refuge of a philosopher, the food of the lazy,…

— John Steinbeck

No sceptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot afternoon.

— Anonymous

“Three things have a limited threshold: Time, pain, and death. While truth, love, and knowledge – Are boundless.”

— Suzy Kassem

All the persecutors declare against each other mortal war, while the philosopher, oppressed by them all, contents himself with pitying them.

— Voltaire

The ancient philosophers, Chinese, Hindu, Persian, and Greek, were a class than which none has been poorer in outward riches, none so…

— Henry David Thoreau