All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“Most of us cling to life as if our existence were a result of our deed or choice.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“When your old enemy came on your land, wont bring anything to you except destruction.” — Kamaran Ihsan Salih Copy Share Image
It's the Platonic philosophy in The Republic that philosophers should lead the country. — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
I want to be remembered as a poet, a peacemaker, and a philosopher who played. — Mattie Stepanek Copy Share Image
Pure draughtsmen are philosophers and dialecticians. Colourists are epic poets. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Every man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
People or philosophers keep saying that our fundamental objective in life is to be happy! This is wrong! Our fundamental objective in… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“A philosopher operates with deductions. A sophist operates with paradoxes. A "public intellectual" operates with buzzwords.” — Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski Copy Share Image
A man becomes a philosopher by reason of a certain perplexity, from which he seeks to free himself. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Philosophers don't all believe that ethics is just based on intuition. That's just stupid! It's ignoramus! — Marjorie Grene Copy Share Image
Philosophers are divided on the question of whether the narrative therein unfolded [the Crossman Diaries] is grippingly boring or boringly gripping. — Clive James Copy Share Image
Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The Christian on his knees sees more than the philosopher on tiptoe. God sends no one away empty except those who are… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
Religious life is about something real in human experience that is not constrained by what Wittgenstein called 'all that is the case'.… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Of course, I strongly sympathized with Habermas and the philosophers representing the Frankfurt school, but I also saw the lack of conceptual… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
“He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and nearly all that is undetected… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The code of Manu differs from the bible. By means of it the nobles, the philosophers, and the warriors keep the whip… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The fact that the person who you are sleeping with is also sleeping with another person or other people does not necessarily… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I was occupied by a range of questions, often different from those fashionable in the professional philosophy of the past half century,… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
A township where one primitive forest waves above while another primitive forestrots below,such a town is fitted to raise not only corn… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Robert Nozick [a Havard philosopher, famous for his book "Anarchy, State and Utopia"] defined revenge as delivering the message that you know… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
The knowledge that is suited to our situation and powers, the whole compass of moral, natural, and mathematical science, was neglected by… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Modern civilization is largely devoted to the pursuit of the cult of delusion. There is no general information about the nature of… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
To the best of my recollection, I became a philosopher because my parents wanted me to become a lawyer. It seems to… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
It is well, when the wise and the learned discover new truths; but how much better to diffuse the truths already discovered,… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Incompatibilists will tell you that a work of art has no meaning unless the artists could have chosen to create a different… — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
As a philosopher, if I were speaking to a purely philosophic audience I should say that I ought to describe myself as… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image