Philosopher Quotes · Page 71

What must the English and French think of the language of our philosophers when we Germans do not understand it ourselves?

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Few parents are aware of the difficulties that beset the minds of the little philosophers and theologians who sit upon their knees…

— Lucy Larcom

I believe that even a smattering of such findings in modern science and mathematics is far more compelling and exciting than most…

— Carl Sagan

The Grand Duke [of Tuscany] ...after observing the Medicaean plants several times with me ... has now invited me to attach myself…

— Galileo Galilei

I am obsessed by the idea of silence. I went through an entire library studying art, artists and their critics, philosophers, too,…

— Terry Tempest Williams

As long as I'm dealing in honesty, I may as well admit that I have been more influenced (as a person) by…

— N.D. Wilson

My instinct as a philosopher is that we are effectively approaching a multicentric world, which means we need to ask new, and…

— Slavoj Zizek

Robert Nozick [a Havard philosopher, famous for his book "Anarchy, State and Utopia"] defined revenge as delivering the message that you know…

— Errol Morris

The philosopher cannot seriously put to himself questions that his civilization has not lived.

— William Barrett

As a bio-philosopher - as someone who draws upon the scriptures of nature, recognizing that we are the product of the process…

— Jonas Salk

“We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

To test a perfect theory with imperfect instruments did not impress the Greek philosophers as a valid way to gain knowledge.

— Isaac Asimov

Philosophers, if they have much imagination, are apt to let it loose as well as other people, and in such cases are…

— Granville Penn

I want to be remembered as a poet, a peacemaker, and a philosopher who played.

— Mattie Stepanek

All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all male. Africa,…

— Walter Mosley

The philosophers of industrialism, from Bacon to Bentham, from Smith to Marx, insisted that the improvement of man's condition was the highest…

— Lewis Mumford

If we only look far enough off for the consequence of our actions, we can always find some point in the combination…

— George Eliot

I'm not a philosopher. I am the next thing to a jock, which is a novelist.

— Frederick Busch

Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers; read, study and think a great deal of life...

— Robert Henri

“Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The cynic who twitted Aristippus by observing that the philosopher who could dine on herbs might despise the company of a king,…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Were I a philosopher, I should write a philosophy of toys, showing that nothing else in life need to be taken seriously,…

— Anonymous

Mrs. Wiggs was a philosopher, and the sum and substance of her philosophy lay in keeping the dust off her rose-colored spectacles.

— Alice Hegan Rice

Daniel Dennett is our best current philosopher. He is the next Bertrand Russell. Unlike traditional philosophers, Dan is a student of neuroscience,…

— Marvin Minsky

In addition to pumping the blood of life within our bodies, we may think of the heart as a belief-to-matter translator. It…

— Gregg Braden