Now that we do not have priests and philosophers any more, artists are the most important people in the world. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
If your divines are not philosophers, your philosophy will neither be divine, nor able to divine. — Julius Charles Hare Copy Share Image
Men who are lovers of wisdom [i.e., philosophers] must be inquirers into many things. — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
An army of philosophers would not be sufficient to change the nature of error and to make it truth. — Averroes Copy Share Image
“Not philosophers, but fret-sawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
In taking action we must remember that the things which are happening to the Jews today are but a part of the… — Louis Finkelstein Copy Share Image
For they, the philosophers, were considered teachers of right living, which is far more excellent, since to speak well belongs only to… — Lactantius Copy Share Image
Teenagers are philosophers. They are thinking about the big things like existence and identity at a time when their identities are changing… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
The quest for our origin is the sweet fruit's juice which maintains satisfaction in the minds of the philosophers. — Luca Pacioli Copy Share Image
Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
“There are many things wealth cannot buy, and most of those are enumerated by philosophers who have never woken wondering if this… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
Philosophy recovers itself when it ceases to be a device for dealing with the problems of philosophers and becomes a method, cultivated… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
There are actually two separate issues here. The first is whether (as ancient philosophers and Nietzsche assume) only the privileged elite can… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
“I despise the kind of book which tells you how to live, how to make yourself happy! Philosophers have no good news… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Men are not philosophers, but are rather very foolish children, who, by reason of their partiality, see everything in the most absurd… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Things were different in the past. People idolized thinkers, philosophers, artists and scientists. Today the world admires CEOs, businessmen and managers. Basically,… — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
One could say that what differentiates ancient from modern philosophy is the fact that, in ancient philosophy, it was not only Chrysippus… — Pierre Hadot Copy Share Image
“There is a present because it works with my theories. If you find a better one than mine, then I may reconsider,… — Mary-Jean Harris Copy Share Image
“The society we have described can never grow into a reality or see the light of day, and there will be no… — Plato Copy Share Image
Some philosophers have been of opinion that our immortal part acquires during this life certain habits of action or of sentiment, which… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
“So engrained in the human heart is the desire to believe that some people really do know what they say they know,… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“Why do scientists never debate philosophers? It’s because they know they would be destroyed in argument, when they have to actually clarify… — Joe Dixon Copy Share Image
Aristotle, in spite of his reputation, is full of absurdities. He says that children should be conceived in the Winter, when the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Even those who specialize in the history of philosophy often ignore the political and cultural context, and the natural world in which… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
I persist in preferring philosophers to rabbis priests imams ayatollahs and mullahs. Rather than trust their theological hocus-pocus I prefer to draw… — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the fact that comics are people who are oddly courageous in their desire and their commitment to sacrificing any… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
Even those who have desired to work out a completely positive philosophy have been philosophers only to the extent that, at the… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
“Hmmm!” directed to Fai. “Is there such thing as an answer, Fai?” he asked, though by his tone, Wolfdon could tell he… — Mary-Jean Harris Copy Share Image
Children are the only brave philosophers. And brave philosophers are, inevitably, children. — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
I could never teach people to be philosophers - and if I did, you could never make a gardener out of them. — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers. — William James Copy Share Image
Philosophers are as jealous as woman; each wants a monopoly of praise. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“We encounter great souls, who lived in historical times, in ancient books.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“Mr. Pickwick was a philosopher, but philosophers are only men in armour, after all.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
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