Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women. — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
It may be argued that peoples for whom philosophers legislate are always prosperous. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Until kings are philosophers or philosophers are kings, cities will never cease from ill.” — Paxton Casmiro Copy Share Image
“Too many leaders fancy themselves on being philosophers, but not enough pride themselves on decisive action.” — Noel DeJesus Copy Share Image
Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers. — John Churton Collins Copy Share Image
Ideal goals are a menace in themselves, as much in more modern philosophers as in Plato. — Moses Finley Copy Share Image
“[L]e philosophe n'a jamais tué de prêtres et le prêtre a tué beaucoup de philosophes... (The philosopher has never killed any priests,… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
The clear and simple words of common usage are always better than those of erudition. The jargon of the philosophers not seldom… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
“As Plato, the dangerous beguiler, said: the best philosophers in the world are boys with their beards new on their chins; I… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“All philosophers must, therefore, doff their hats to the poets when they discover that the path of reason takes them only so… — Hagiwara Sakutaro Copy Share Image
“Spinoza offers philosophers a new model: the body. He pro poses to establish the body as a model: "We do not know… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Philosophers have actually devoted themselves, in the main, neither to perceiving the world, nor to spinning webs of conceptual theory, but to… — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers; read, study and think a great deal of life... — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
What you can imagine depends on what you know. Philosophers who know only philosophy consign themselves to a janitorial role in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Too lazy to be ambitious, I let the world take care of itself. Ten days' worth of rice in my bag; a… — Ryokan Copy Share Image
“We are on the road to producing a race of men too mentally modest to believe in the multiplication table. We are… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Most philosophers must have been raised on chicken farms. One hopes for so much from a chicken and is so dreadfully disillusioned.… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
“Biographers are not usually as explicit as philosophers such as Plato, Wittgenstein, Austin, or Moore on questions of the existence of an… — Hermione Lee Copy Share Image
In Iran, the women are like Italian women, they rule the house inside. But it's full of life. The history is very… — Juliette Binoche 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
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
“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
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
“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
“Faced with the thoughts, the actions of a woman whom we love, we are as completely at a loss as the world's… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Like the character Moliere who discovered to his astonishment that he had been speaking prose all his life, I discovered to my… — Bryan Magee Copy Share Image
“The race of prophets is extinct. Europe is becoming set in its ways, slowly embalming itself beneath the wrappings of its borders,… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
“Ever since Plato most philosophers have considered it part of their business to produce ‘proofs’ of immortality and the existence of God.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“From time immemorial, some men supposed to deal in one-valued 'eternal verities'. We called such men 'philosophers' or 'meta-physicians'. But they seldom… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
I have never come across someone who could inspire more respect than the Greek philosophers. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
“Till now philosophers have tried to understand the world,The point however to change it.Karl Marx” — Manickam Nambi Copy Share Image
“We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Only when one thinks even much more madly than the philosophers can one solve their problems. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
But of all nations in the world the English are perhaps the least a nation of pure philosophers. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
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