“Technically, you cannot really own a book you bought; you can only own the sheets of paper your copy is printed on;… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
It is often difficult to know about one's own era which philosophers in it will be remembered as the most important ones,… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Only philosophers embark on this perilous expedition to the outermost reaches of language and existence. Some of them fall off, but others… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas. Its hard absolute optimism… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
My definition (of a philosopher) is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“Loneliness tortures many if not most of the elderly more intensely and more frequently than it torments many if not most of… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The student who would build his knowledge on solid foundations, and proceed by just degrees to the pinnacles of truth, is directed… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Like the philosopher, the author views his task as one of establishing a clear connection between life and history, and of making… — Lion Feuchtwanger Copy Share Image
Thinking should be like musical meditation. Has any philosopher pursued a thought to its limits the way Bach or Beethoven develop and… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
No sceptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot afternoon. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Religious literature has eminent examples, and if we run over our private list of poets, critics, philanthropists and philosophers, we shall find… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The most refined abstractions of logic conduct to a view of life, which, though startling to the apprehension, is, in fact, that… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
It might be suggested, and not easily disproven that anything, no matter how exotic, can be believed by someone. On the other… — Shirley Jackson 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
Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from… — Edmund Husserl Copy Share Image
It is not ignoble to feel that the fuller life which a sad experience has brought us is worth our personal share… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
William James was not a prophet. He was a philosopher whose philosophy reflected his profound humanity. — Stanley Hauerwas 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
Throughout the whole of life one must continue to learn to live and what will amaze you even more, throughout life you… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
There's no greater sign of being a poor philosopher and wise man than wanting all of life to be wise and philosophical. — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
The place that does Contain my books, the best companions, is To me a glorious court, where hourly I Converse with the,… — John William Fletcher Copy Share Image
Mathematicians have sought knowledge in figures, Philosophers in systems, Logicians in subtleties, and Metaphysicians in sounds. It is not in any nor… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The philosopher's conception of things will, above all, be truer than other men's, and his philosophy will subordinate all the circumstances of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The fondness or indifference that the philosophers expressed for life was merely a preference inspired by their self-love, and will no more… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
