Philosopher Quotes · Page 6

The philosopher aspires to explain away all mysteries, to dissolve them into light. Mystery on the other hand is demanded and pursued…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

The root of suffering is attachment

— Gautama Buddha

By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you will be happy. If you get a bad one, youll become…

— Socrates

The principle of laissez-faire may be safely trusted to in some things but in many more it is wholly inapplicable; and to…

— John Ramsay McCulloch

If thou canst see sharp, look and judge wisely, says the philosopher.

— Marcus Aurelius

I have lived as a philosopher and die as a Christian.

— Giacomo Casanova

What a mathematical proof actually does is show that certain conclusions, such as the irrationality of , follow from certain premises, such…

— Timothy Gowers

“[Il ne manque cependant à l'oisiveté du sage qu'un meilleur nom, et que méditer, parler, lire, et être tranquille s'appelât travailler.] There…

— Jean de La Bruyère

Intelligence may indeed be a benign influence creating isolated groups of philosopher-kings far apart in the heavens... On the other hand, intelligence…

— Freeman Dyson

“Christianity is at its purest a philosophy about a person, Jesus Christ, and at its dirtiest a philosophy about requirements and law.”

— Criss Jami

That is the first thing to learn — not to seek. When you seek you are really only window-shopping. The question of…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

The philosopher spends in becoming a man the time which the ambitious man spends in becoming a personage.

— Philibert Joseph Roux

One philosopher has rightly said that property is theft. But I'd like to use my future ownership of property to give something…

— George Carlin

Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.

— Seneca the Younger

If true happiness depended on the thoughts of man, then all philosophers and deep thinkers would be filled to overflowing with it.

— Sadhu Sundar Singh

The man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.

— Honore de Balzac

All philosophers should end their days at Pythia’s feet. There is only one philosophy, that of unique moments.

— Emile M. Cioran

I felt the question of the afterlife was the black hole of the personal universe: something for which substantial proof of existence…

— Raymond Moody

I don't think that anything of any consequence is known a priori: all our knowledge is built up by modifying the lore…

— Philip Kitcher

Philosophers play with the word, like a child with a doll.... It does not mean that everything in life is relative.

— Albert Einstein

I'm a slumdog philosopher.

— Kedar Joshi

For other great mathematicians or philosophers, he [Gauss] used the epithets magnus, or clarus, or clarissimus; for Newton alone he kept the…

— Anonymous

If moral statements are about something, then the universe is not quite as science suggests it is, since physical theories, having said…

— David Berlinski

One odd thing about the current debate between religious people and atheists is that the participants don't seem to care that they…

— Tim Crane

In mysticism that love of truth which we saw as the beginning of all philosophy leaves the merely intellectual sphere, and takes…

— Evelyn Underhill