I strongly believe that one of the best philosophies of life is to be your own philosopher. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Boredom is probably more frequent and more tormenting if you do not have sight or hands.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Ideal goals are a menace in themselves, as much in more modern philosophers as in Plato. — Moses Finley Copy Share Image
“For there was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
To a philosopher no circumstance, however trifling, is too minute. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
No philosopher's stone of a constitution can produce golden conduct from leaden instincts. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking. — William James Copy Share Image
“Millions of sane people would each be sexually attracted to their own parent or child if they were not related to them.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
This is too difficult for a mathematician. It takes a philosopher. The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It's only by thinking even more crazily than philosophers do that you can solve their problems. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
One of the reasons why architects are often attracted to philosophers, partially, has to do with making sense of the world around… — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
The clear and simple words of common usage are always better than those of erudition. The jargon of the philosophers not seldom… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
Some great poet or philosopher once said that " he who goes to nature for comfort must go to her empty handed… — Flora Thompson Copy Share Image
I keep reverting (to Duke Ellington), he to me is the greatest ever and my favorite jazz philosopher, as such. — Cannonball Adderley Copy Share Image
“A big rock can handle a hammer blow, it just gets chipped a little, what it can't handle is erosion” — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
I'm the company philosopher and the burr in the saddle. I'm the one who says we need to try harder, improve the… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
“I watch Fox news for the comedy, MSNBC when I need to be reminded that mind midgets exist and CNN when I… — James Scott, Senior Fellow, The Center for Cyber Influence Operations Studies (CCIOS Copy Share Image
This principle of nature being very remote from the conceptions of Philosophers, I forbore to describe it in that book, least I… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
One afternoon late in October of the year 1697, Euclide Auclair, the philosopher apothecary of Quebec, stood on the top of Cap… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
I was introduced to Mr. Davy, who has rooms adjoining mine (in the Royal Institution); he is a very agreeable and intelligent… — John Dalton Copy Share Image
Philosophers talk about truth and falsehood. People in life talk about payoff, exposure, and consequences (risks and rewards), hence fragility and antifragility.… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If God does not exist, and if religion is an illusion that the majority of men cannot live without ... let men… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
“At present, a good many men engaged in scientific pursuits, and who have signally failed in gaining recognition among their fellows, are… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The student is half afraid to meet one of the great philosophers face to face. He feels himself inadequate and thinks he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The most refined abstractions of logic conduct to a view of life, which, though startling to the apprehension, is, in fact, that… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
One man has discovered that by running there is no need to meditate, just by running meditation happens. He must be absolutely… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
To turn Karl [Popper]'s view on its head, it is precisely the abandonment of critical discourse that marks the transition of science.… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“A mama's boy, loner, intellectual, voracious reader and gourmand, Dimitri was a man of esoteric skills and appetites: a gambler, philosopher, gardener,… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
A philosopher is a man who can look at an empty glass with a smile. — Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar Copy Share Image
“Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Men who are lovers of wisdom [i.e., philosophers] must be inquirers into many things. — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“She who is a dancer can only sway the silk of her hair like the summer breeze.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image