In my view, philosophers have shown a great deal more respect for the first-person point of view than it deserves. There's a… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
Without at all invalidating what we have just said, we believe that a perpetual remembrance of the tomb is proper for the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The artist must be a philosopher. Socrates the skilled sculptor, Jean-Jacques [Rousseau] the good musician, and the immortal Poussin, tracing on the… — Jacques-Louis David Copy Share Image
We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innocence, to find our way… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
We look for the Secret - the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of the Wise, Supreme Enlightenment, 'God' or whatever...and all the time… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Philosophers feel a little more cautious about letting down their technical guard lest the general public doesn't recognize their special credentials. It's… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
MONAD, n. The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter (see Molecule). The monad has body without bulk, and mind without manifestation - containing… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
As [Gershom] Scholem explains, this [Shabbetaian] doctrine is connected to the idea that 'the elect are fundamentally different from the crowd and… — Shadia Drury Copy Share Image
I have tried to read philosophers of all ages and have found many illuminating ideas but no steady progress toward deeper knowledge… — Max Born Copy Share Image
When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life. It means fear is no longer a dominant factor… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Wisdom I who have decided to love mankind instead of men, to love life’s contradictions, impossibilities. I who have grown into a… — Janice Kulyk Keefer Copy Share Image
Philosophers have very justly remarked that the only solid instruction is that which the pupil brings from his own depths; that the… — Joseph Marie, baron de Gerando Copy Share Image
It is rational to choose the right means to your ends to develop very elegant abstract formal theories of rational choice, and… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
“I think of sense, and of thoughts built on sense, as windows, not as prison bars. I think that we can, however… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If moral statements are about something, then the universe is not quite as science suggests it is, since physical theories, having said… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
What is a good definition? For the philosopher or the scientist, it is a definition which applies to all the objects to… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
The Bible defines almost nothing because it isn't a book for scholars and philosophers or free thinkers. It's a book for people… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
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“I had to originate a philosophical framework of my own, because my basic view of man and existence was theories. In order… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
When Alexander the Great visited the philosopher Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for him, Diogenes is said to have… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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“We, in the interest of the so-called progress, have been persuaded to leave the production and at times the cooking of our… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
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The teacher who allows his scholars the freedom of the city of books is at liberty to be their guide, philosopher and… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
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It was modesty that invented the word "philosopher" in Greece and left the magnificent overweening presumption in calling oneselfwise to the actors… — Friedrich Nietzsche 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 poets and philosophers I once loved had it wrong. Death does not come to us all, nor does the passage of… — Anonymous 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
Future generations may or may not judge Wittgenstein to be one of the great philosophers. Even if they do not, however, he… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
Professors of Greek forget or are unaware that Thomas Aquinas, who did not know Greek, was a better interpreter of Aristotle than… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
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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
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In England, philosophers are honoured, respected; they rise to public offices, they are buried with the kings... In France warrants are issued… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
![“The artist must be a philosopher. Socrates the skilled sculptor, Jean-Jacques [Rousseau] the good musician, and the immortal Poussin, tracing on the canvas the sublime lessons of philosophy, are so many proofs that an artistic genius should have no other guide except the torch of reason.” quote by Jacques-Louis David](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0e9/jacques-louis-david-55514_art_the-artist-must-be-a-philosopher-socrate_583995.jpg)
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