The philosophers must station themselves in the middle. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Philosophy abounds more than philosophers, and learning more than learned men. — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
“Many philosophers have defined the meaning of life, while few, like Diogenes, have dared to live it.” — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
Philosophers say that nothing can be seen that is neither illuminated nor colored. — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
I am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers. — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
“If women are so smart, how come hardly any philosophers have been, and now are, female?” — Juan T. Llibre Copy Share Image
“The world is in trouble because of a few funny sympathetic philosophers” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
The purpose of philosophers is to show people what is right under their noses. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“He(E.A.Poe) cannot be blamed for not saying clearly what beauty is. The greatest philosophers in the world acknowledge in the end that… — Étienne Gilson Copy Share Image
Everything that is popular, it has been said, deserves the attention of philosophers: and this is for the obvious reason, that although… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“For in this Case, we are not to give Credit to the Many, who say, that none ought to be educated but… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“Children are the only bold philosophers. And bold philosophers have to be children. Precisely like children, and there should always be: but… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“The philosophers write about things as they are and as they appear to be, but as an artist I find that appearance… — Gary Inbinder Copy Share Image
We should listen to both philosophers and scientists, because the philosophical contribution is different from the scientific contribution, and both of them… — L.A. Paul Copy Share Image
after all the work of the philosophers on his soul and the doctors on his body, what can we really say we… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“For particulars, as every one knows, make for virture and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's not just that there is a cooperative spirit of investigation there, where we all recognise that we are engaged in a… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
Some philosophers can't bear to say simple things, like "Suppose a dog bites a man." They feel obliged instead to say, "Suppose… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Love is blind, they say; sex is impervious to reason and mocks the power of all philosophers. But, in fact, a man's… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Some philosophers have been of opinion that our immortal part acquires during this life certain habits of action or of sentiment, which… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
One could say that what differentiates ancient from modern philosophy is the fact that, in ancient philosophy, it was not only Chrysippus… — Pierre Hadot Copy Share Image
“There is a present because it works with my theories. If you find a better one than mine, then I may reconsider,… — Mary-Jean Harris Copy Share Image
“Things were different in the past. People idolized thinkers, philosophers, artists and scientists. Today the world admires CEOs, businessmen and managers. Basically,… — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
Men are not philosophers, but are rather very foolish children, who, by reason of their partiality, see everything in the most absurd… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Nothing can illustrate these observations more forcibly, than a recollection of the happy conjuncture of times and circumstances, under which our Republic… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“Socrates: Have you noticed on our journey how often the citizens of this new land remind each other it is a free… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We are full of things which take us out of ourselves. Our instinct makes us feel that we must seek our happiness… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“But even if all agreed together, it would not be enough to have their teachings. For we shall never be mathematicians, say,… — René Descartes Copy Share Image
“Truth changes with the season of our emotions. It is the shadow that moves with the phases of our inner sun. When… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“Jim,” she said once, after an evening spent among the men who were called the intellectual leaders of the country, “Dr. Simon… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
To a certain extent all philosophers have been involved in a systematic questioning that undermines confidence and certainty. Philosophy as a whole… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
“A fine risk is always something to be taken in philosophy. ... Philosophy thus arouses a drama between philosophers and an intersubjective… — Emmanuel Levinas Copy Share Image
