In the beginning the Poets and Philosophers taught the world to see. Then after that any form of education was no longer… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination and nothing has been the occasion of more mistakes among… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Supposing that Truth is a woman ---well, now, is there not some foundation for suspecting that all philosophers, insofar as they were… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Children are the only bold philosophers. And bold philosophers will always be children. So you're right, it's a child's question, just as… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
What the philosophers once knew as life has become the sphere of private existence and now of mere consumption, dragged along as… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Do you not see what damage has been done to science through this: i.e. pedants wishing to be philosophers; to treat of… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
All philosophers can do is to abstain from helping the aggressors and to enjoin social scientists to tell the truth instead of… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Mathematicians have sought knowledge in figures, Philosophers in systems, Logicians in subtleties, and Metaphysicians in sounds. It is not in any nor… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in philosophy, but I don't' think there are any philosophers anymore. Now it's artists. It's a visual thing… — Michele Lamy 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
“This is precisely where philosophers are a notable exception. A philosopher never gets quite used to the world. to him or her,… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Some recent philosophers seem to have given their moral approval to these deplorable verdicts that affirm that the intelligence of an individual… — Alfred Binet Copy Share Image
In regard to the philosophers, if they be true philosophers, i.e., lovers of truth, they should not be irritated that the earth… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
The great philosophers of the past who wrote so beautifully - Rousseau, John Stuart Mill - had to write beautifully because they… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
The human race will have no respite from evils until those who are really philosophers acquire political power or until, through some… — Plato Copy Share Image
“Back therefore we find ourselves returning. Back to the wisdom of the plough; back to the wisdom of those who follow the… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
“The discords of our experience--delight in change, fear of change; the death of the individual and the survival of the species, the… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
“Which philosophers would Alain suggest for practical living? Alain’s list overlaps nearly 100% with my own: Epicurus, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Plato, Michel… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
Consequently, after the fall of Greece, the pursuit of education philosophy and science almost ceased to exist. Humanity suddenly shunned the wonderful… — Johnny Luckett Copy Share Image
The Quest of the Holy Grail, the Search for the Stone of the Philosophers - by whatever name we choose to call… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“[Thales] was reproached for his poverty, which was supposed to show that philosophy is of no use. According to the story, he… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Helmholtz is not a philosopher in the exclusive sense, as Kant, Hegel, Mansel are philosophers, but one who prosecutes physics and physiology,… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
“Richard Feynman had to say this about energy in his 1961 lecture: “There is a fact, or if you wish, a law,… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“Philosophers are always trying to climb up the fine hairs of the fur in order to stare right into the magician's eyes.” — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
One can defend common sense against the attacks of philosophers only by solving their puzzles, i.e., by curing them of the temptation… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
I think truth as an idea should be left to the philosophers and perhaps religious leaders and politicians, and professional people who… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“One must not avoid Schopenhauer. One should read him and then overcome him. It is the ladder that you must get rid… — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
“Babbage, Herschel, Jones, and Whewell are a strange breed: the last of the natural philosophers, who engendered, as it were with their… — Laura J. Snyder Copy Share Image
The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers. — Bryan Magee Copy Share Image
“Only poets and philosophers see the world as it really is, for only to them is it given to live without illusions.… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
When it comes to the real operational issues that govern our understanding of physical reality, ontological definitions of classical philosophers are, in… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would… — Jack Kevorkian Copy Share Image
There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The philosophers likewise assume that in Nature there is nothing in vain, so that everything that is not the product of human… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
I read all the great philosophers but most people just hear what they want to hear and it makes it easy for… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
Philosophers should be, as Seneca put it, 'lawyers for humanity'. Make what you think and feel count; the examined life has global… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
In my opinion a mathematician, in so far as he is a mathematician, need not preoccupy himself with philosophy-an opinion, moreover, which… — Henri Lebesgue Copy Share Image
Philosophers are people who know less and less about more and more, until they know nothing about everything. Scientists are people who… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
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