“Even a great philosophical idea when mixed with mysticism, turns into a dangerous weapon that becomes an impediment in the path of… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The great critic … must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It might seem that the empirical philosopher is the slave of his material, but that the pure mathematician, like the musician, is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Easy to do are things that are bad and harmful to oneself. But exceedingly difficult to do are things that are good… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“Caution not spirit, let it roam wild; for in that natural state dance embraces divine frequency.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers; read, study and think a great deal of life... — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another. — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
“I was interested in this because it bore out an opinion of mine that philosophy is an affair of character rather than… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Most human beings strongly believe that money is way less important than the life of a human being, but in reality five… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Fishermen, hunters, woodchoppers, and others, spending their lives in the fields and woods, in a peculiar sense a part of Nature themselves,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Philosophers have actually devoted themselves, in the main, neither to perceiving the world, nor to spinning webs of conceptual theory, but to… — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
When we meet with better fare than was expected, the disappointment is overlooked even by the unscrupulous. When we meet with worse… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
Camus believed in dialogue and diplomacy, and enlisted his work as a philosopher to the need to find nonviolent solutions, whereas Sartre… — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
Suppose cats became philosophers, they would see a cat universe and have a cat solution of the problem of the universe, and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Those who are not schooled and practised in truth [who are not honest and upright men] can never manage aright the government,… — Plato Copy Share Image
“Well, Montag, take my word for it, I've had to read a few in my time, to know what I was about,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The great paradox of determinism and free will, which has held the attention of the wisest of philosophers and psychologists for generations,… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Let us become thoroughly sensible of the weakness, blindness, and narrow limits of human reason: Let us duly consider its uncertainty and… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Philosophers stretch the meaning of words until they retain scarcely anything of their original sense. They give the name of "God" to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Philosophy deals in the abstract and the universal, but not in the particular. History deals only in the particular, not with general… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Wonder acts upon a man like a shock, he is "moved" and "shaken", and in the dislocation that succeeds all that he… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
Science and mathematics [are] much more compelling and exciting than the doctrines of pseudoscience, whose practitioners were condemned as early as the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
There is a form of laughter that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of childhood, the expression… — William Osler Copy Share Image
Now there are no priests or philosophers left, artists are the most important people in the world. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A relationship is likely to last way longer, if each partner convinces or has convinced themselves that they do not deserve their… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the… — William Osler Copy Share Image
So too Plato was, in my view, a very unreliable Platonist. He was too much of a philosopher to think that anything… — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share Image
The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it; and every philosopher supplies the logic his own undoing. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
“For the philosopher is right who says that nothing is thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Your looks will introduce you, but your character and personality will make them to like you,love you and they would want to… — De philosopher DJ kyos Copy Share Image
A vulgar man, in any ill that happens to him, blames others; a novice in philosophy blames himself; and a philosopher blames… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Let no man posture as an advocate of peace if he proposes or supports any social system that initiates the use of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The really royal calling of the philosopher (as expressed by Alcuin the Anglo-Saxon): To correct what is wrong, and strengthen the right,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The contempt of riches in the philosophers was a concealed desire of revenging on fortune the injustice done to their merit, by… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
“Dance as the narration of a magical story; that recites on lips, illuminates imaginations and embraces the most sacred depths of souls.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
Philosophers need not much use the word 'intuition' or the concept of intuition, except when they happen to be working on the… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
![“Those who are not schooled and practised in truth [who are not honest and upright men] can never manage aright the government, nor yet can those who spend their lives as closet philosophers; because the former have no high purpose to guide their actions, while the latter keep aloof from public life.” quote by Plato](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f79/plato-103_action_those-who-are-not-schooled-and-practised_1210851.jpg)
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