The words 'theory' and 'practice' are of Greek origin; they carry our thoughts back to the ancient philosophers by whom they were… — William John Macquorn Rankine Copy Share Image
Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
More and more it seems to me that the philosopher, being of necessity a man of tomorrow and the day after tomorrow,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“The German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, who had syphilis, said that only a person of deep faith could afford the luxury of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I am very Aristotelian in approach - not in detail - so I always find I'm saying things that get people frustrated… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
There’s a real question as to what beauty is and why it’s important to us. Many pseudo-philosophers try to answer these questions… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
In fact, of course, I hold that propositions that contemporary philosophers would properly count as 'empirical' can be necessary and be known… — Saul Kripke Copy Share Image
I think moral philosophy is speculation on how we ought to live together done by people who have very little clue how… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
I would like to be a philosopher in ancient Athens and a poet in ancient China. — Shan Sa Copy Share Image
No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. For poetry is the blossom… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The whole life of a philosopher is the meditation of his death. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The myth that John Locke was the philosopher behind the American Republic, is easily refuted by examining how Locke's philosophy steered Thomas… — Robert Trout Copy Share Image
Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity. The ignorant peasant without fault is greater than the philosopher with many. What is… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
It's catastrophies which turn wise and strong people into philosophers. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I am only a philosopher, and there is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do, and that… — William James Copy Share Image
I never think in terms of alienation; it's the others who do. Alienation means one thing to Hegel, another to Marx and… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
