Philosopher Quotes · Page 8

What the first philosopher taught the last will have to repeat.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Dance is the timeless interpretation of life.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

Life is too short to be wasted in finding answers. Enjoy the questions.

— Paulo Coelho

Independence is the outstanding characteristic of the runner.

— Noel Carroll

I like both slapstick and contradiction. Like philosophers.

— Jean-Luc Godard

One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers.

— James Russell Lowell

There are more riddles in a stone than in a philosopher's head

— Damon Knight

“All the hungers will kill, but hunger of loneliness turns you into a philosopher.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

My definition (of a philosopher) is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which…

— Louisa May Alcott

Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers

— Arthur Helps

Sed nescio quo modo nihil tam absurde dici potest quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosphorum. (There is nothing so absurd but some…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Only when one thinks even much more madly than the philosophers can one solve their problems.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.

— Plato

“Eldora smiled up at Paulo cunningly, her dark eyes twinkling. “You are old, Father.” “Not as old as I shall be, before…

— Mary-Jean Harris

In fact, philosophy is universal in scope. No man can live without a world view; therefore, there is no man who is…

— Francis Schaeffer

Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination and nothing has been the occasion of more mistakes among…

— David Hume

“O Heavenly Children, God's messengers are as limitless as the fish in the sea. They come in all colors, regions, languages and…

— Suzy Kassem

“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

“Never justify someones wrong action, without them apologizing first & admitting their wrongs. If you do. You are not making them better,…

— De philosopher DJ Kyos

But, after all, the sciences have made progress, because philosophers have applied themselves with more attention to observe, and have communicated to…

— Etienne Bonnot de Condillac

“Wisdom—seems to the rabble a kind of escape, a means and a trick for getting well out of a wicked game. But…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“[Stephenson] believes that, as research becomes more airborne and more office-bound, we generalize more and more, and we lose the vast range…

— Peter Steinhart

In his essay, ‘Perpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of…

— Anonymous

Without at all invalidating what we have just said, we believe that a perpetual remembrance of the tomb is proper for the…

— Victor Hugo

There are actually two separate issues here. The first is whether (as ancient philosophers and Nietzsche assume) only the privileged elite can…

— Philip Kitcher

“It is like a general informing his soldiers that it is better to keep out of battle forever than to risk a…

— William James

I think that you know you have experts in fields who spend their life studying one thing. When an event goes on…

— John Buffalo Mailer

It has been said by a distinguished philosopher that England is "usually the last to enter into the general movement of the…

— Isaac Todhunter

.. the word ecology, coined by the German biologist and philosopher Ernst Haeckel (initially as oecology) in 1866. derives from the Greek…

— Warwick Fox

The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas. Its hard absolute optimism…

— Joseph Conrad

Philosophers often think all scientists must be scientific realists. If you ask a simple question like "Are electrons real?" the answer will…

— Bas van Fraassen

“That philosopher who orders us to conceal ourselves and to care for no one but ourselves and who wishes us to remain…

— Michel de Montaigne

There was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently

— William Shakespeare

This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Only fools and philosophers waste time on the unknowable.

— Rex Stout

I used to think that I was stupid, and then I met philosophers.

— Terry Pratchett

We're philosophers. We think, therefore we am.

— Terry Pratchett

Pure draughtsmen are philosophers and dialecticians. Colourists are epic poets.

— Charles Baudelaire

It's the Platonic philosophy in The Republic that philosophers should lead the country.

— Alan Lightman

“I don't claim to know all the answers but I can be your friend, philosopher, and guide.”

— Avijeet Das