By nature a philosopher is not in genius and disposition half so different from a street porter, as a mastiff is from… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Here's one more from my limited experience with all 3 fields: A writer creates life; a poet creates magic from life; a… — Siddharth Katragadda Copy Share Image
Sleep is a state in which a great part of every life is passed. No animal has yet been discovered, whose existence… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Philosophers are capable of almost endless enjoyment of mutual misunderstanding. — Lyman Bryson Copy Share Image
Therefore, even the lover of myth is a philosopher; for myth is composed of wonder. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
In order to be a really good investor, you need to be a little bit of a philosopher as well. — Daniel S. Loeb Copy Share Image
Philosopher Bertrand Russell suggested that 'Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.' And, it was Albert Einstein… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
In the high school classroom you are a drill sergent, a rabbi, a shoulder to cry on, a disciplinarian, a singer, a… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
We're in a post-conceptual era where it's really the artist's idea and vision that are prized rather than the ability to master… — Jeffrey Deitch Copy Share Image
It often seems that the poet's derisive comment is not unjustified when he says of the philosopher: “With his nightcaps and the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
There was a time I was no longer going to be black. I was going to be an 'intellectual.' When I was… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
Until philosophers hold power, neither states nor individuals will have rest from trouble. — Plato Copy Share Image
To a Mistress Dying Lover. YOUR beauty, ripe and calm and fresh As eastern summers are, Must now, forsaking time and flesh,… — William Davenant Copy Share Image
I am not primarily an entrepreneurial businessman. I'm primarily a playboy philosopher. — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
Talk about polygamy! There is no true philosopher on the face of the earth but what will admit that such a system,… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Our civilized world is nothing but a great masquerade. You encounter knights, parsons, soldiers, doctors, lawyers, priests, philosophers and a thousand more:… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Dance is that delicacy of life radiating every particle of our existence with happiness.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
The quest for our origin is the sweet fruit's juice which maintains satisfaction in the minds of the philosophers. — Luca Pacioli Copy Share Image
Philosophers of science constantly discuss theories and representation of reality, but say almost nothing about experiment, technology, or the use of knowledge… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
The natural scientists of the previous age knew less than we do and believed they were very close to the goal: we… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Early morning, the orange sun is slowly rising, shining forth in empty luminous clarity. The mind and the sky are one, the… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
“Three things have a limited threshold: Time, pain, and death. While truth, love, and knowledge – Are boundless.” — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
When we come to understand architecture as the essential nature of all harmonious structure we will see that it is the architecture… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
I think one reason is that philosophers are more insecure to speak accessibly because non-philosophers are skeptical that philosophers have any special… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
