Socrates was a philosopher. He went around pointing out errors in the way things were done. They fed him hemlock. — Gil Amelio Copy Share Image
In our corrupted state, common weaknesses and defects contribute more towards the reconciling us to one another than all the precepts of… — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax Copy Share Image
A good half of the effort of understanding what the Indian philosophers were after - and their subtleties make most of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The philosopher strives to find the liberating word, that is, the word that finally permits us to grasp what up to now… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“One must not avoid Schopenhauer. One should read him and then overcome him. It is the ladder that you must get rid… — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
America's founding Ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more - and nothing less. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The philosopher's soul dwells in his head, the poet's soul is in his heart; the singer's soul lingers about his throat, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that’s a tree', pointing to… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Most "process" philosophy is historicist (e.g., Hegel) and not concerned with "deep time." Maybe Whitehead is an exception. He may be a… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
“Just as a novelist may sometimes wonder why he invents characters who do not exist and makes them do things which do… — Edward St. Aubyn Copy Share Image
Philosophers are people who know less and less about more and more, until they know nothing about everything. Scientists are people who… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
“Millions of business people are each constantly forced to choose between their desire to not be a bad person and their desire… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
When philosophers use a word--"knowledge," "being," "object," "I," "proposition," "name"--and try to grasp the essence of the thing, one must always ask… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
You should know as much as you can about the human species if you have a hand in designing human society. Of… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
“In the philosopher, conversely, there is nothing whatever that is impersonal;7 and above all, his morality bears decided and decisive witness to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If one believes philosophers, then what we call religion is only a deliberately popularized or an instinctively artless philosophy. Poets seem to… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel 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
The fact that these scientific theories have a fine track record of successful prediction and explanation speaks for itself. (Which is not… — Hilary Kornblith 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
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
To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
An army of philosophers would not be sufficient to change the nature of error and to make it truth. — Averroes Copy Share Image
“There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself. An enemy who has lost his temper & a… — Theo Papas Copy Share Image
All philosophers can do is to abstain from helping the aggressors and to enjoin social scientists to tell the truth instead of… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
Every good mathematician is at least half a philosopher, and every good philosopher is at least half a mathematician. — Gottlob Frege Copy Share Image
Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Today, it is not only that our kings do not know mathematics, but our philosophers do not know mathematics and - to… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
“Besides, he was a philosopher; he smoked a good many cigars over his disappointment, and in the fulness of time he got… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Philosophers tend to radically underestimate the distance between abstract principles (such as "reduce suffering") and what it might actually mean for people… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
If a philosopher is not a man, he is anything but a philosopher; he is above all a pedant, and a pedant… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
Beside some philosophers of larger vision, Carlyle stands like an honest, half-despairing boy, grasping at some details only of their world systems. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think truth as an idea should be left to the philosophers and perhaps religious leaders and politicians, and professional people who… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
One can defend common sense against the attacks of philosophers only by solving their puzzles, i.e., by curing them of the temptation… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
But of all nations in the world the English are perhaps the least a nation of pure philosophers. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
The facile economic and psychological debunking of the theoretical life cannot do away with its irreducible beauties. — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
William James was not a prophet. He was a philosopher whose philosophy reflected his profound humanity. — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
