A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“When I read, I was a philosopher and it was up to me to figure out the meaning of things. Reading made… — Heather O'Neill Copy Share Image
Every child's bedroom is as important as a telescope orbiting the planet earth or a philosopher's study. — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
What verse is for the poet, dialectical thinking is for the philosopher. He grasps for it in order to get hold of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When men abandon reason, physical force becomes their only means of dealing with one another and of settling disagreements. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Some philosophers see into themselves, and some into their times; still others forge an alliance with the future. — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
A philosopher of imposing stature doesn't think in a vacuum. Even his most abstract ideas are, to some extent, conditioned by what… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
A pipe is a pocket philosopher,--a truer one than Socrates, for it never asks questions. Socrates must have been very tiresome, when… — Ouida Copy Share Image
I think, when people hear the word 'philosophy,' they think of Plato and a bunch of people sitting around in their robes… — Shannon Lee Copy Share Image
The centre of the universe and only rotates on its axis without going from east to west, is a very dangerous attitude… — Robert Bellarmine Copy Share Image
While most of those who hold that the whole heaven is finite say that the earth lies at the center, the philosophers… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
When you can't smoke, if you stand and stare out of the window on your own, you're an antisocial, friendless idiot. If… — Rory Sutherland Copy Share Image
The inspiration of a single book has made preachers, poets, philosophers, authors, and statesmen. On the other hand, the demoralization of a… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
People can be teachers and idiots; they can be philosophers and idiots; they can be politicians and idiots... in fact I think… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
As a bio-philosopher - as someone who draws upon the scriptures of nature, recognizing that we are the product of the process… — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
My primary object is to defend and advance a principle in which I see the only possible relief from much that enthralls… — Henry George Copy Share Image
You can be horrified by the state of the prisons, the misery in certain neighborhoods of its cities, or their level of… — Bernard-Henri Levy Copy Share Image
I argue is that philosophers have had a tendency to present a kind of mystical view of the powers of reflection. Unreflective… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
For the last 250 years or so, secularists have waited patiently for the fulfilment of their prediction that religion would die out… — Daniel Taylor Copy Share Image
“Were I to choose an auspicious image for the new millennium, I would choose that one: the sudden agile leap of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Henry Corbin creates the world - most of all his examination of the imagination and what the imagination was for him. Some… — Ben Chasny Copy Share Image
“It is reason which breeds pride and reflection which fortifies it; reason which turns man inward into himself; reason which separates him… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The late British-born philosopher Alan Watts, in one of his wonderful lectures on eastern philosophy, used this analogy: "If I draw a… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
Some time ago a little-known Scottish philosopher wrote a book on what makes nations succeed and what makes them fail. The Wealth… — George Akerlof Copy Share Image
Although according to certain philosophers it is quite difficult to distinguish the jester from the melancholic, life itself being a comic drama… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Hold fast, therefore, O circular philosopher, to thy centre, and drive the globe along its orbit by the momentum of thy thought. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
It has often been said, and certainly not without justification, that the man of science is a poor philosopher. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Spending that many hours in the saddle gave a man plenty of time to think. That's why so many cowboys fancied themselves… — Charles Marion Russell Copy Share Image
Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The savage lives simply through ignorance and idleness or laziness, but the philosopher lives simply through wisdom. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Some of the best things that have ever happened to us wouldn’t have happened to us, if it weren’t for some of… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Shall I show you the sinews of a philosopher? What sinews are those? - A will undisappointed; evils avoided; powers daily exercised;… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
A philosopher is a person who doesn't care which side his bread is buttered on; he knows he eats both sides anyway. — Joyce Brothers Copy Share Image
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit. — Laozi Copy Share Image
Each philosopher, each bard, each actor has only done for me, as by a delegate, what one day I can do for… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I have never come across someone who could inspire more respect than the Greek philosophers. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
By renouncing the Bible, philosophers swing from their moorings upon all moral subjects..It is the only correct map of the human heart… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
To this principle of vanity, which philosophers call a mean one, and which I do not, I owe a great part of… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
