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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
Christmas was close at hand, in all his bluff and hearty honesty; it was the season of hospitality, merriment, and open-heartedness; the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It is almost a rule that the more complex a man is, the simpler his billing. A person with a retrospective ability… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
My doctor said to me afterwards, 'When you were ill you behaved like a true philosopher. Every time you came to yourself… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Pagan philosophers set up reason as the sole guide of life, of wisdom and conduct; but Christian philosophy demands of us that… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
As long as I have the talent and there's a demand for the old Chinese man - whether he's a philosopher, or… — James Hong Copy Share Image
“The Street Epistemologist is a philosopher and a fighter. She has savvy and street smarts that come from the school of hard… — Peter Boghossian Copy Share Image
To me personally the only function of philosophy is to teach us to take life more lightly and gayly than the average… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein once remarked that if you ask a man how much is two plus two and he tells you… — Thomas Friedman 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
“Oh, make no mistake. I am no callow, ardent youth. I am an elderly man, broken in health and body, and soon… — Jack London Copy Share Image
A strange effect of marriage, such as the nineteenth century has made it! The boredom of married life inevitably destroys love, when… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
The Chinese philosopher Chuang-Tzu stated that true empathy requires listening with the whole being: The hearing that is only in the ears… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I think one reason is that philosophers are more insecure to speak accessibly because non-philosophers are skeptical that philosophers have any special… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Was not Hypatia the greatest philosopher of Alexandria, and a true martyr to the old values of learning? She was torn to… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
The leap of faith is a strategic impasse that confronts every Christian in search of converts; and, as he sees the matter,… — George H. Smith 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
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
There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another. — Rene Descartes 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
Now there are no priests or philosophers left, artists are the most important people in the world. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Millions of sane people would each be sexually attracted to their own parent or child if they were not related to them.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
This is too difficult for a mathematician. It takes a philosopher. The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Nietzsche, an infinitely harder and more courageous intellect, was incapable of any such confusion of ideas; he seldom allowed sentimentality to turn… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It's only by thinking even more crazily than philosophers do that you can solve their problems. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
One of the reasons why architects are often attracted to philosophers, partially, has to do with making sense of the world around… — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
Some great poet or philosopher once said that " he who goes to nature for comfort must go to her empty handed… — Flora Thompson Copy Share Image
The clear and simple words of common usage are always better than those of erudition. The jargon of the philosophers not seldom… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
I keep reverting (to Duke Ellington), he to me is the greatest ever and my favorite jazz philosopher, as such. — Cannonball Adderley Copy Share Image
“A big rock can handle a hammer blow, it just gets chipped a little, what it can't handle is erosion” — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
Since the princes take the Earth for their own, it's fair that the philosophers reserve the sky for themselves and rule there,… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
