The human mind is not, as philosophers would have you think, a debating hall, but a picture gallery. — Douglas Harding Copy Share Image
The Country is both the Philosopher's Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
What does a philosopher demand of himself, first and last? To overcome his time in himself, to become "timeless. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
An old philosopher said to Monsieur Coignard, a Reverend Father: 'You are a pig!' To which Abad Coignard answered: 'You flatter me,… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
There is no record in human history of a happy philosopher: they exist only in romantic legend. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The true philosopher is one who makes people believe that he admires what he does not admire. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
You got this new breed of hipster chicks and hipster men that don't understand anything about sacrifice. They didn't lay it on… — Willis Earl Beal Copy Share Image
I love Osho. I don't know if you would call him a philosopher; I would just call him a really cool dude.… — Willow Smith Copy Share Image
September's Baccalaureate A combination is Of Crickets - Crows - and Retrospects And a dissembling Breeze That hints without assuming - An… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Enlightenment writer and philosopher Voltaire likened life to a game of cards. Players must accept the cards dealt to them. However, once… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When selecting a one-night stand, a heterosexual woman who is materialistic is a trillion times more likely to choose a sexually unattractive… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The teacher, like the artist, the philosopher, and the man of letters, can only perform his work adequately if he feels himself… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I sometimes wish I had been educated a Catholic, in order to unite the poetry of religion with its higher principles. Are… — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
There is a sort of myth of History that philosophers have… History for philosophers is some sort of great, vast continuity in… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
...I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
If cathedrals had been universities If dungeons of the Inquisition had been laboratories If Christians had believed in character instead of creed… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Even those who have desired to work out a completely positive philosophy have been philosophers only to the extent that, at the… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
A statue lies hid in a block of marble, and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“It is foolish, generally speaking, for a philosopher to set fire to another philosopher in Smithfield Market because they do not agree… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Philosophers are not honest enough in their work, although they make a lot of virtuous noise when the problem of truthfulness is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is not a philosophical method, though there are indeed methods, like different therapies. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
A philosopher may deplore the eternal discords of the human race, but he will confess, that the desire of spoil is a… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat — Moliere Copy Share Image
Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences? — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
“To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up." ~Happy… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful. — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
There is no philosopher in the world so great but he believes a million things on the faith of other people and… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Legislators, priests, philosophers, writers, ans scientists have striven to show that the subordinate position of woman is willed in heaven and advantageous… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Philosophy always requires something more, requires the eternal, the true, in contrast to which even the fullest existence as such is but… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Philosophers say that perfection is unattainable. Lithographers redefine perfection according to SEMI standards. — Ken Goldberg Copy Share Image
The highest philosophers, in explaining the mystery of this world, are obliged to call in the aid of another. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now by philosophers, can once again be made… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“A philosopher once said 'Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are… — Stardust Copy Share Image
Let no young man delay the study of philosophy, and let no old man become weary of it; for it is never… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
If you see a philosopher determining all things by means of right reason, him you shall reverence: he is a heavenly being… — Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Copy Share Image
Every fool becomes a philosopher after ten days of rain, so I spare you the inside view of my heart. — Marian Hooper Adams Copy Share Image
