There is no opinion so stupid that it can't be expressed by some philosopher. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The philosophers must station themselves in the middle. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The words of that philosopher who offers no therapy for human suffering are empty and vain. — Epicurus Copy Share Image
“Through synergy of intellect, artistry and grace came into existence the blessing of a dancer.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
States will never be happy until rulers become philosophers or philosophers become rulers. — Plato Copy Share Image
Philosophy abounds more than philosophers, and learning more than learned men. — William Benton Clulow 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
The philosopher strives to find the liberating word, that is, the word that finally permits us to grasp what up to now… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
In our corrupted state, common weaknesses and defects contribute more towards the reconciling us to one another than all the precepts of… — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax Copy Share Image
Disputes among natural philosophers are of use to science, as the quarrels of the great, and the clamors of the little, are… — Hal Hellman Copy Share Image
“One must not avoid Schopenhauer. One should read him and then overcome him. It is the ladder that you must get rid… — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself. An enemy who has lost his temper & a… — Theo Papas Copy Share Image
All philosophers can do is to abstain from helping the aggressors and to enjoin social scientists to tell the truth instead of… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
Just look at life with more playful eyes. Don't be serious. Seriousness becomes like a blindness. Don't pretend to be a thinker,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“I am aware of many things being quite as important as good writing and good reading; but in all things it is… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Philosopher, orator, apostle, legislator, warrior, conqueror of ideas, restorer of rational dogmas, of a cult without images, the founder of twenty terrestrial… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
The grand reason of the burst of public sentiment in anathemas upon Christ and his disciples, causing his crucifixion, was evidently based… — Jedediah M. Grant Copy Share Image
Socrates ... is the first philosopher of life [Lebensphilosoph], ... Thinking serves life, while among all previous philosophers life had served thought… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Philosophers and psychiatrists should explain why it is that we mathematicians are in the habit of systematically erasing our footsteps. Scientists have… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
Many people have thought of me as a thinker, as a philosopher, or even as a mystic. Well the truth is that… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I have used the philosophers' ideas for my own private literary purposes, but I don't think that I'm a thinker. I suppose… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
A strange effect of marriage, such as the nineteenth century has made it! The boredom of married life inevitably destroys love, when… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
The Chinese philosopher Chuang-Tzu stated that true empathy requires listening with the whole being: The hearing that is only in the ears… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Let us become thoroughly sensible of the weakness, blindness, and narrow limits of human reason: Let us duly consider its uncertainty and… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Philosophy and science have not always been friendly toward the idea of God, the reason being they are dedicated to the task… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The great paradox of determinism and free will, which has held the attention of the wisest of philosophers and psychologists for generations,… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles, and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Socrates dies with honor, surrounded by his disciples listening to the most tender words -the easiest death that one could wish to… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I shall no doubt be blamed by certain scientists, and, I am afraid, by some philosophers, for having taken serious account of… — C. D. Broad Copy Share Image
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