“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
States will never be happy until rulers become philosophers or philosophers become rulers. — Plato Copy Share Image
An army of philosophers would not be sufficient to change the nature of error and to make it truth. — Averroes Copy Share Image
love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Men who are lovers of wisdom [i.e., philosophers] must be inquirers into many things. — Heraclitus 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
The scientists often have more unfettered imaginations than current philosophers do. Relativity theory came as a complete surprise to philosophers, and so… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
“Since then, as philosophers prove, appearance tyrannizes over truth and is lord of happiness, to appearance I must devote myself.” — Plato Copy Share Image
Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known. This was the sound conclusion of the Academic sceptics,… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
I grew up in a household that really encouraged reading and writing. My mother loves philosophy and is constantly reading philosophy and… — Lulu Wang Copy Share Image
“Only a philosopher would consider taking Oedipus as a model for a normal, unproblematic relation between an action and the maxim of… — Anonymous 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
“I despise the kind of book which tells you how to live, how to make yourself happy! Philosophers have no good news… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
There are actually two separate issues here. The first is whether (as ancient philosophers and Nietzsche assume) only the privileged elite can… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Are there experts, ethical experts, that's very offensive to all of us? Because it's part of our humanity to have a stake… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
The triumph of science has been mainly due to its practical utility, and there has been an attempt to divorce this aspect… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I think that you know you have experts in fields who spend their life studying one thing. When an event goes on… — John Buffalo Mailer Copy Share Image
“Just as summer-killed meat draws flies, so the court draws spurious sages, philosophists, and acosmists who remain there as long as their… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
“Naive people tend to generalize people as—-good, bad, kind, or evil based on their actions. However, even the smartest person in the… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“It is certain that the labors of these early workers in the field of natural knowledge were brought to a standstill by… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful. The surest way to end them… — A.J. Ayer 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
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
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
If moral statements are about something, then the universe is not quite as science suggests it is, since physical theories, having said… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
If your divines are not philosophers, your philosophy will neither be divine, nor able to divine. — Julius Charles Hare Copy Share Image
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