Philosophers don't all believe that ethics is just based on intuition. That's just stupid! It's ignoramus! — Marjorie Grene Copy Share Image
The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing… — Jonathan Swift 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
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
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
Sometimes when a philosopher's views are widely rejected by the world, the fault is not with the philosopher but with the world. — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
When philosophers try to understand consciousness, much of what they claim is not conceptual analysis at all, though it may be shopped… — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
I mean, it’s true, nobody talks about them, but when you bring it up, the idea that you have to rent yourself… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I hate ideologies of all kinds, so I avoid jargon. I've done enough philosophy to know that some specialized terms are really… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
We should be surprised that a matter that generally plays such an important part in the life of man has hitherto been… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
When Eudæmonidas heard a philosopher arguing that only a wise man can be a good general, "This is a wonderful speech," said… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
When artists and philosophers talk only amongst themselves, they ignore the potential of popular culture to become a variety of dialogues with… — Brenda Laurel Copy Share Image
“There is a point in every philosophy at which the "conviction" of the philosopher appears on the scene; or, to put it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I'm not a philosopher so why should I provide anyone with the answers? I'm just a musician, I don't have any solutions.… — Ayshay Copy Share Image
The character of Jesus has not only been the highest pattern of virtue, but the strongest incentive in its practice, and has… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
“Life is just a series of peaks and troughs, and you don't whether you're in a trough until you're climbing out, or… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
The master-economist must possess a rare combination of gifts. He must reach a high standard in several different directions and must combine… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
A philosopher is a lover of wisdom, not of knowledge, which for all its great uses ultimately suffers from the crippling effect… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
Of the first philosophers, then, most thought the principles which were of the nature of matter were the only principles of all… — Mary Hunter Austin Copy Share Image
“Who would be a more suitable leader of a city or more worthy to rule over people than a philosopher? It is… — William Irvine Copy Share Image
.. the word ecology, coined by the German biologist and philosopher Ernst Haeckel (initially as oecology) in 1866. derives from the Greek… — Warwick Fox Copy Share Image
It has been said by a distinguished philosopher that England is "usually the last to enter into the general movement of the… — Isaac Todhunter Copy Share Image
“It is like a general informing his soldiers that it is better to keep out of battle forever than to risk a… — William James Copy Share Image
“Transcend the terrestrial; surpass the celestial, from nature’s hands when you receive the sublime pleasures of dance.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
The true philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You ask a philosopher a question and after he or she has talked for a bit, you don't understand your question any… — Philippa Foot Copy Share Image
One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another. — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
It brings joy in sorrow, victory in battle, light to darkness, life to the dead. That is the power of the blood-red… — Hiromu Arakawa Copy Share Image
They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The definition of a philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black hat, which isn’t really there.… — Michael Ruse Copy Share Image
For a courageous man cannot die dishonorably, a man who has attained the consulship cannot die before his time, a philosopher cannot… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
In fact, of course, I hold that propositions that contemporary philosophers would properly count as 'empirical' can be necessary and be known… — Saul Kripke Copy Share Image
Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've always argued that it is just as desirable, just as possible, to have philosopher plumbers as philosopher kings. — Edith Green Copy Share Image
Cowardice was undoubtedly one of the most terrible vices - thus spoke Yeshua Ha-Nozri. 'No, philosopher, I disagree with you: it is… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
Money does all things,--for it gives and it takes away; it makes honest men and knaves, fools and philosophers; and so forward,… — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
A German philosopher once wrote that he who fights monsters must take care that he doesn't become one himself. — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
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