The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in… — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
A philosopher will not believe what he sees because he is too busy speculating about what he does not see. — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
“The philosopher seeks to hear within himself the echoes of the world of symphony and to re-project them in the form if… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There's no precedent for women philosophers and there's no precedence for most of the things I did. — Agnes Denes Copy Share Image
If you see a philosopher determining all things by means of right reason, him you shall reverence: he is a heavenly being… — Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Copy Share Image
Every fool becomes a philosopher after ten days of rain, so I spare you the inside view of my heart. — Marian Hooper Adams Copy Share Image
“A philosopher once said 'Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are… — Stardust Copy Share Image
We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now by philosophers, can once again be made… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
He [Professor Moriarty] is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
give the man of color an equal opportunity with the white, from the cradle to manhood, and from manhood to the grave,… — Maria W. Stewart Copy Share Image
I decided to do philosophy at university, with a view to becoming a professional philosopher. Being a rather unstable character, at some… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Copy Share Image
The cynic who twitted Aristippus by observing that the philosopher who could dine on herbs might despise the company of a king,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I did not intend to be a writer. I first wanted to be a lawyer, like my father. Then I got bit… — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
I'm most impressed by the Russian writers, so I love reading the works of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Another author who has informed… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
The nature of God is something that is of serious interest to believers, to theologians, and to philosophers. And yet we can't… — George Coyne Copy Share Image
I believe that dance was the first art. A philosopher has said that dance and architecture were the first arts. I believe… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
The men who are not interested in philosophy need it most urgently: they are most helplessly in its power. The men who… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“philosopher has given a rational, objectively demonstrable, scientific answer to the question of why man needs a code of values. So long… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
At first sight nothing seems more obvious than that everything has a beginning and an end, and that everything can be subdivided… — Svante Arrhenius Copy Share Image
If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women. The world perhaps would laugh at me, and… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
Christ alone, of all the philosophers, magicians, etc., has affirmed eternal life as the most important certainty, the infinity of time, the… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Even if a king defeats his enemy in battle, that still doesn't settle anything. There are other, less numerous armies of philosophers… — Cyrano de Bergerac Copy Share Image
Very many maintain that all we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown; nor do philosophers pin their… — William Harvey Copy Share Image
At one time, many philosophers held that faultless "laws of thought" were somehow inherent, a priori, in the very nature of mind.… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
Let no young man delay the study of philosophy, and let no old man become weary of it; for it is never… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
“It is solemn duty of the philosopher to piss on all that you hold dear and sacred, to show you that your… — Hanzi Freinacht Copy Share Image
The philosophers of antiquity taught contempt for work, that degradation of the free man, the poets sang of idleness, that gift from… — Paul Lafargue Copy Share Image
The myth that John Locke was the philosopher behind the American Republic, is easily refuted by examining how Locke's philosophy steered Thomas… — Robert Trout Copy Share Image
The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful. — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
“To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up." ~Happy… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
The highest philosophers, in explaining the mystery of this world, are obliged to call in the aid of another. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
There is no philosopher in the world so great but he believes a million things on the faith of other people and… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Philosophers say that perfection is unattainable. Lithographers redefine perfection according to SEMI standards. — Ken Goldberg Copy Share Image
Philosophy always requires something more, requires the eternal, the true, in contrast to which even the fullest existence as such is but… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Legislators, priests, philosophers, writers, ans scientists have striven to show that the subordinate position of woman is willed in heaven and advantageous… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
What does a philosopher demand of himself, first and last? To overcome his time in himself, to become "timeless. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is no record in human history of a happy philosopher: they exist only in romantic legend. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
An old philosopher said to Monsieur Coignard, a Reverend Father: 'You are a pig!' To which Abad Coignard answered: 'You flatter me,… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat — Moliere Copy Share Image
Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences? — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
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