Scientists search for truth. Philosophers search for morality. A criminal trial searches for only one result: proof beyond a reasonable doubt. — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
There are very few original thinkers in the world; the greatest part of those who are called philosophers have adopted the opinions… — Dugald Stewert Copy Share Image
Since at least the Middle Ages, philosophers and philologists have dreamed of curing natural languages of their flaws by constructing entirely new… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
Critics and academics often employ theories and philosophers in order to help them understand and dissect movies and books. — Douglas Lain Copy Share Image
Professional philosophers are usually only apologists: that is, they are absorbed in defending some vested illusion or some eloquent idea. Like lawyers… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Is it astonishing that, like children trying to catch smoke by closing their hands, philosophers so often see the object they would… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
I have a general moral: great philosophers may be great, but that is not a reason to follow them. Don't be a… — Tim Crane Copy Share Image
“French philosophers had been able to admire Mao and his works because they did not have to live in China at the… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Scientists and philosophers tend to treat knowledge, imagination and love as if they were all very separate parts of human nature. But… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
Philosophers (and probably most intellectuals) are more interested in pursuing what they see as the logical implications of their theories than they… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
“and to be quite frank, that is precisely what we need philosophers for. We do not need them to choose a beauty… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
I, for one, struggle a little bit with a $250,000 education for a philosophy degree. They are a wonderful people, but we… — Douglas R. Oberhelman Copy Share Image
Some are slaves of ambition or money, but others are interested in understanding life itself. These give themselves the name of philosophers… — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
Philosophy is best practised by people in general and not by philosophers alone. Philosophy is too often a luxury now, but in… — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
What we owe future generations is the subject of growing debate by economists, philosophers, ethicists, public policymakers, and academics of all stripes.… — Leonor Varela Copy Share Image
“[Il ne manque cependant à l'oisiveté du sage qu'un meilleur nom, et que méditer, parler, lire, et être tranquille s'appelât travailler.] There… — Jean de La Bruyère Copy Share Image
“In the eighteenth century, philosophers considered the whole of human knowledge, including science, to be their field and discussed questions such as:… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“The Olympian vice.--In defiance of that philosopher who as true Englishman tried to give any thinking person's laughter a bad reputation ('Laughter… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Wherefore a man can know nothing by himself, save after a natural manner, which is only that which he attains by means… — St John Of The Cross Copy Share Image
The rank and file are not philosophers, they are not educated to think for themselves, but simply to accept, unquestioned, whatever comes. — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
“I had become aware, as early as my college days, that no opinion, however absurd and incredible can be imagined, that has… — René Descartes Copy Share Image
It has been a long time since philosophers have read men's souls. It is not their task, we are told. Perhaps. But… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Being a philosopher requires a lot of thinking and no action. Being a model requires a lot of action and no thinking.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Even if all philosophers do eat, some may eat more than others. This situation is called "lack of fairness". Or life.” — Dennis E. Shasha Copy Share Image
A philosophy which speaks, even indirectly, only to philosophers is no philosophy at all; and I think the same is true if… — Abraham Kaplan Copy Share Image
We were promised a society of philosophers. But the Blogosphere is looking more and more like a nation of ankle-biters. — Steven Levy Copy Share Image
“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it. [ These words are also… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather… — Epictetus 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
All that philosophers have handled for millennia has been conceptual mummies; nothing actual has ever escaped from their hands alive. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I don’t even pretend to believe I know everything; I just believe in arguments God told me I had a pretty good… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Education, they [philosophers] felt, is the only answer to the always pressing question, to the political question par excellence, of how to… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
Should philosophers be expected to change the world? Such an expectation seems to me extravagant. Marx himself didn't change the world: he… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
“Wonder is a verb. An activity, like walking or eating cheese. Despite what we may think we are all already philosophers; the… — Thomas Swanson Copy Share Image
What we should in fact do, is stop allowing philosophers to reflect 'on' things. The philosopher creates, he doesn't reflect. — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
“It is undesirable that all citizens become soldiers and engage in physical combat. We need philosophers or great thinkers to revolutionize the… — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they… — Vilhjalmur Stefansson Copy Share Image
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