Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Look not for refuge to anyone beside yourself. Heed fast to the truth as a lamp. — Gautama Buddha 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
I don't pretend to be an intellectual or a philosopher. I just look. — Josef Koudelka Copy Share Image
“Burdened no more is soul for whom life flows through dance like breath.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
The true philosopher is one who makes people believe that he admires what he does not admire. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
There is not a philosophical method, though there are indeed methods, like different therapies. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
One can defend common sense against the attacks of philosophers only by solving their puzzles, i.e., by curing them of the temptation… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
If a philosopher is not a man, he is anything but a philosopher; he is above all a pedant, and a pedant… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
Beside some philosophers of larger vision, Carlyle stands like an honest, half-despairing boy, grasping at some details only of their world systems. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Philosophers tend to radically underestimate the distance between abstract principles (such as "reduce suffering") and what it might actually mean for people… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
“Besides, he was a philosopher; he smoked a good many cigars over his disappointment, and in the fulness of time he got… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“Never justify someones wrong action, without them apologizing first & admitting their wrongs. If you do. You are not making them better,… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
“To lovers there. Most ladies the reason they are dumped and their relationship doesn't last is they made themselves to become a… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
“When a philosopher wants high ceilings, he goes outside'. He doesn't buy an oversize house that requires massive amounts of dwindling resources… — Chad Harbach 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
It is generally agreed by philosophers of science that important contributions which have a revolutionary impact on science are often methodologically inadequate,… — Hans Eysenck Copy Share Image
The philosopher, who with calm suspicion examines the dreams and omens, the miracles and prodigies, of profane or even of ecclesiastical history,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Philosophers conceive of the passions which harass us as vices into which men fall by their own fault, and, therefore, generally deride,… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
The Oriental philosophy approaches easily loftier themes than the modern aspires to; and no wonder if it sometimes prattle about them. It… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Since Pawlow and his pupils have succeeded in causing the secretion of saliva in the dog by means of optic and acoustic… — Jacques Loeb Copy Share Image
For example, a few years ago, a great French philosopher, Roger Garaudy, wrote a scientific book. He did not offend, curse, or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The stone that was rolled before Christ's tomb might appropriately be called the philosopher's stone because its removal gave not only the… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Maybe I'm being a bit harsh on philosophers, but they have not been very kind to me... I have been variously called… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Mankind occurs as male or female, as something or nothing. Woman has no share in ontological reality, no relation to the thing-in-itself,… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
To a certain extent all philosophers have been involved in a systematic questioning that undermines confidence and certainty. Philosophy as a whole… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
“ Cavendish was a great Man with extraordinary singularities—His voice was squeaking his manner nervous He was afraid of strangers & seemed… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
There are actually two separate issues here. The first is whether (as ancient philosophers and Nietzsche assume) only the privileged elite can… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
“It is like a general informing his soldiers that it is better to keep out of battle forever than to risk a… — William James Copy Share Image
I think that you know you have experts in fields who spend their life studying one thing. When an event goes on… — John Buffalo Mailer Copy Share Image
It has been said by a distinguished philosopher that England is "usually the last to enter into the general movement of the… — Isaac Todhunter Copy Share Image
