There is no place in the world, I imagine, for a philosopher with a sense of humor, a new leisure, and an… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
When I was at Notre Dame studying under Joe Evans, Frank O'Malley, and others, there was a very lively debate about the… — Bruce Babbitt Copy Share Image
I feel that we are all philosophers, and that those who describe themselves as a 'philosopher' simply do not have a day… — Kevin Warwick Copy Share Image
When we walk, we naturally go to the fields and woods: what would become of us, if we walked only in a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
[Benjamin] Franklin may be a great philosopher, [John Adams] told his diary in 1779, but "as a Legislator in America he has… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
There is a form of laughter that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of childhood, the expression… — William Osler Copy Share Image
The duty of a philosopher is clear. He must take every pain to ascertain the truth; and, having arrived at a conclusion,… — Henry Thomas Buckle Copy Share Image
Scientists search for truth. Philosophers search for morality. A criminal trial searches for only one result: proof beyond a reasonable doubt. — Alan Dershowitz 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
A philosopher is a fool who torments himself while he is alive, to be talked of after he is dead. — Jean le Rond d'Alembert Copy Share Image
In building up a democratic model I think that Cuba's contribution, little by little, has contributed to getting closer to the ideals… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
“In reality most human beings are not, to most human beings, more important than money.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher. He… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Philosophers who pay for their semantics by drawing checks on Darwin are in debt way over their heads. — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
“The condition and characteristic of an uninstructed person is this: he never expects from himself profit (advantage) nor harm, but from externals.… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“I like my writing career and it's progression, I'd rather be that slow moving tide that turns a mountain into a beautiful… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
O sweet spontaneous earth how often have the doting fingers of prurient philosophers pinched and poked thee ,has the naughty thumb of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The finest imagination in the world could not have conceived of a better idea than the philosophers' stone to inspire the minds… — Justus von Liebig 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
To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light because they are so… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“It is the nature of my dreams that determine the fabric of my existence - rjs” — rassool jibraeel snyman Copy Share Image
Philosophy is not one truth, but thousands of truths. You don't have to believe in just one thing. When you chose one… — Marcel Wanders Copy Share Image