Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The savage lives simply through ignorance and idleness or laziness, but the philosopher lives simply through wisdom. — Henry David Thoreau 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
The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Can an ass be tragic?To perish under a burden that one can neither bear nor cast off? The case of the philosopher. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
By renouncing the Bible, philosophers swing from their moorings upon all moral subjects..It is the only correct map of the human heart… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
To this principle of vanity, which philosophers call a mean one, and which I do not, I owe a great part of… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The theory of social contracts extends as far back as Plato. However, it was the great 18th century social philosophers John Locke,… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
A woman finds the natural lay of the land almost unconsciously; and not feeling it incumbent on her to be guide and… — Alice Stone Blackwell Copy Share Image
The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
This does not mean that you are warmongers. On the contrary, the soldier above all other people prays for peace, for he… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
“Our government says people must not take law in their own hands, But has given the law in the hands of people… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
The contempt of riches in philosophers was only a hidden desire to avenge their merit upon the injustice of fortune, by despising… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Throughout all history, the great wise men and teachers, philosophers, and prophets have disagreed with one another on many different things. It… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions. Intellect, will, taste, and… — William James Copy Share Image
A delusion that encourages belief where there is no evidence is asking for trouble. Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The bourgeois thinkers of the eighteenth century thus turned Aristotle's formula on its head: satisfactions which the Greek philosopher had identified with… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“I do what I do because I love God, as I love your children, as I love humanity, as I love peace,… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work… — Arthur Schopenhaur Copy Share Image
Confronted with such a variety most philosophers try to establish one approach to the exclusion of all others. As far as they… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
The experimentalists think that we can only get at our concepts by way of empirical investigation, while the armchair philosophers think that… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggler, and whose art is the art of patching and… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Pathology, probably more than any other branch of science, suffers from heroes and hero-worship. Rudolf Virchow has been its archangel and William… — Harry S.N. Greene Copy Share Image
I have never come across someone who could inspire more respect than the Greek philosophers. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit. — Laozi Copy Share Image
Each philosopher, each bard, each actor has only done for me, as by a delegate, what one day I can do for… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A philosopher is a person who doesn't care which side his bread is buttered on; he knows he eats both sides anyway. — Joyce Brothers Copy Share Image
Shall I show you the sinews of a philosopher? What sinews are those? - A will undisappointed; evils avoided; powers daily exercised;… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“Some of the best things that have ever happened to us wouldn’t have happened to us, if it weren’t for some of… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“The average adult has had sex innumerable times more than they have formed an opinion of their own.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit it and read it are old women… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Perhaps no philosopher is more correct than the cynic. The happiness of the animal, that thorough cynic, is the living proof of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I can easily teach people to be gardeners, and from them, once they know how to garden, you'll get a philosopher. — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is a still… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Schiller is an important philosopher because he shows just how integral the idea of beauty is in normal life. — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
“But nobody has ever yet called a philosopher "a hired conscience," though everybody gives the lawyer this nickname. Why this partiality?” — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
The critic ... should be not merely a poet, not merely a philosopher, not merely an observer, but tempered of all three. — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
