There was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“Burdened no more is soul for whom life flows through dance and not breath.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“A philosopher's house is always more tuneful than a disciplinarian's.” — Joshua Emmet Copy Share Image
The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other peoples. — William Ralph Inge 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I worry that we don't currently have a democracy in the United States. Instead we have what [political philosopher] Sheldon Wolin has… — Thomas L. Dumm Copy Share Image
It is thus hardly surprising that so many of the great minds in recent history have concerned themselves with economic matters. Indeed,… — Paul Zane Pilzer Copy Share Image
The place that does Contain my books, the best companions, is To me a glorious court, where hourly I Converse with the,… — John William Fletcher Copy Share Image
Philosophers do need to have intuitions of various specific sorts: ethical, metaphysical, etc., depending on their targeted subject matter. And they must… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
Theoretical scientists who probe the secrets of the universe and philosophers who seek answers to existence, as well as painters such as… — Wynn Bullock Copy Share Image
Fuzzy thinking is, after all, just one step above not thinking at all. But to take the ideas of serious transformational thinkers… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
People can be teachers and idiots; they can be philosophers and idiots; they can be politicians and idiots... in fact I think… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
Abstract reason, formerly the servant of practical human reasons, has everywhere become its master, and denies poetry any excuse for existence. Though… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
The men who are not interested in philosophy need it most urgently: they are most helplessly in its power. The men who… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“philosopher has given a rational, objectively demonstrable, scientific answer to the question of why man needs a code of values. So long… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Pathology, probably more than any other branch of science, suffers from heroes and hero-worship. Rudolf Virchow has been its archangel and William… — Harry S.N. Greene Copy Share Image
Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggler, and whose art is the art of patching and… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
At first sight nothing seems more obvious than that everything has a beginning and an end, and that everything can be subdivided… — Svante Arrhenius Copy Share Image
If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women. The world perhaps would laugh at me, and… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
Very many maintain that all we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown; nor do philosophers pin their… — William Harvey Copy Share Image
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