Philosophers Quotes

“Kings and philosophers shit—and so do ladies.”

— Michel de Montaigne

We're philosophers. We think, therefore we am.

— Terry Pratchett

Say, Not so, and you will out circle the philosophers.

— Henry David Thoreau

Good comedians are great philosophers.

— Reggie Watts

Women make us poets, children make us philosophers.

— Malcolm De Chazal

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Mothers are instinctive philosophers.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

The philosophers must station themselves in the middle.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“As useful as an unhappy artist. As useless as a happy philosopher.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Philosophers are smart, analytical, and skeptical. For these reasons they are relatively unbiased.

— Dale Jamieson

“It is my obligation as a gentleman to protect philosophers.”

— Bill Minutaglio

The great philosophers are poets who believe in the reality of their poems.

— Antonio Machado

Philosophers don't all believe that ethics is just based on intuition. That's just stupid! It's ignoramus!

— Marjorie Grene

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it.

— Karl Marx

“philosophers”—the ancient Stoics—even if they’d never read them.* They had the”

— Ryan Holiday

“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it”

— Karl Marx

“Philosophers often appear to intend to want to get answers about humans that we can't get about insects, and that's too much,…

— Noam Chomsky

Poets are being pursued by the philosophers today, out of the poverty of philosophy. God damn it, you might think a man…

— William Carlos Williams

This sort of thing has got to be stopped. Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“For centuries, philosophers have recognized that it is not the objective world that influences us but how we represent and interpret the…

— Anonymous

One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world.

— Karl Marx

“The only interesting philosophers are the ones who have stopped thinking and have begun to search for happiness.”

— Emil Cioran

“Heraclitus called self-deception an awful disease and eyesight a lying sense.” —DIOGENES LAERTIUS, LIVES OF THE EMINENT PHILOSOPHERS,”

— Ryan Holiday

Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets…

— Thomas Aquinas

I like Jacques Derrida; I think he's funny. I like my philosophy with a few jokes and puns. I know that that…

— Alan Moore

Of all the named structures within the abdomen and the chest, those associated with reproduction retained the mysteries of their willful behavior…

— Sherwin B. Nuland

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or…

— Plato

“that held no tradition too sacred to question. Jesus was the first of the Enlightenment philosophers. In John 8: 4-7 speaking like…

— Frank Schaeffer

“Socrates (770-399 B.C.[E.]) is possibly the most enigmatic figure in the entire history of philosophy. He never wrote a single line. Yet…

— Jostein Gaarder

To the best of my recollection, I became a philosopher because my parents wanted me to become a lawyer. It seems to…

— Jerry Fodor

Identifying Israel with Jewry obscures the existence of the small but important post-Zionist movement in Israel, including the philosophers Adi Ophir and…

— Judith Butler

Osho is one of India's greatest mystics… I see him as one of the world's great teachers, thinkers, philosophers and guides of…

— Kabir Bedi

“Seduced by the spectacular theoretical and practical successes of the objective sciences into thinking that the methods and criteria of those sciences…

— D. R. Khashaba

“The criers of the Mysteries speak again, bidding all men welcome to the House of Light. The great institution of materiality has…

— Manly P. Hall

“But these philosophers, whose hands seem only made to dabble in dirt, and their eyes to pour over the microscope or crucible,…

— Anonymous

“Moreover, we look in vain to philosophy for the answer to the great riddle. Despite its noble purpose and history, pure philosophy…

— Edward O. Wilson

“Unless,” I said, “the philosophers rule as kings or those now called kings and chiefs genuinely and adequately philosophize, and political power…

— Plato

“I no longer follow the voices of the sane. I follow the ill because they see farther, feel much more and change…

— Shannon L. Alder

At first sight nothing seems more obvious than that everything has a beginning and an end, and that everything can be subdivided…

— Svante Arrhenius

“Logic, according to the conception here formed of it, has no concern with the nature of the act of judging or believing;…

— John Stuart Mill