All philosophers should end their days at Pythia’s feet. There is only one philosophy, that of unique moments. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
The world's philosophers and theologians searched for answers to the same mysteries. — Robert Vaughn Copy Share Image
“inexhaustible effort that philosophers devote to a subject that brings no results.” — Susan Neiman Copy Share Image
What I really love about philosophers and psychologists is that they sound smart. — Yoko Taro Copy Share Image
One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself. — Stokely Carmichael Copy Share Image
“Why do philosophers in the South so often end as newspapermen, poets as doctors? Maybe they crave what's found in pain and… — Josephine Humphreys Copy Share Image
“The definition of a philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black hat, which isn’t really there.… — Michael Ruse Copy Share Image
“study of human nature was in a sorry state. While he had reservations about the ancient philosophers for depending ‘more on Invention… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“It’s an already inside outside, The philosophers say it’s the soul But it’s not the soul: it’s the animal or the man… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“Given that the 'common sense' of many contemporary philosophers is shaped and supplemented by ideas from classical physics, the locus of most… — James Ladyman Copy Share Image
“There will be no end to the troubles of the state or indeed of humanity until philosophers become kings or until those… — Plato Copy Share Image
“The worst conceivable government would be by philosophers; they botch every natural process with theory; their ability to make speeches and multiply… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
There will be no end to the troubles of states,Or of humanity itself,Till philosophers become kings in this world,Or till those we… — Plato Copy Share Image
Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“still the teachings of the philosophers are not the commandments of the gods, but the discoveries of men, who, at the prompting… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
The men who are not interested in philosophy need it most urgently: they are most helplessly in its power. The men who… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The doctrine (of) maintaining that the language of daily life, with words used in their ordinary meanings, suffices for philosophy . .… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A couple of hundred years from now, maybe [science fiction writers] Isaac Asimov and Fred Pohl will be considered the important philosophers… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
“One can speculate that the tardiness and wobbliness of humanity's progress on many of the "eternal problems" of philosophy are due to… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
Very many maintain that all we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown; nor do philosophers pin their… — William Harvey Copy Share Image
Philosophers are never quite sure what they are talking about - about what the issues really are - and so often it… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
“He had read much of things as they are, and talked with too many people. Well-meaning philosophers had taught him to look… — Howard Phillips Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“He had read much of things as they are, and talked with too many people. Well-meaning philosophers had taught him to look… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“As long as he followed the fixed definition of obscure words such as spirit, will, freedom, essence, purposely letting himself go into… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Go on philosophers--teach, enlighten, kindle, think aloud, speak up, run joyfully toward broad daylight, fraternize in the public squares, announce the glad… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“What we encounter in works of art and philosophy are objective versions of our own pains and struggles, evoked and defined in… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“The sum of productive forces, capital funds and social forms of intercourse, which every individual and generation finds in existence as something… — Karl Marx 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
“He thought the best thing he had gained in Paris was a complete liberty of spirit, and he felt himself at last… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image