Philosophers who pay for their semantics by drawing checks on Darwin are in debt way over their heads. — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
Why are philosophers intent on forcing others to believe things? Is that a nice way to behave towards someone? — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
Accuracy is not only in the home. Philosophers often bring accuracy to their thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
“The idea of Plato that philosophers must be the rulers and directors of society is practiced in India.” — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Copy Share Image
Until philosophers hold power, neither states nor individuals will have rest from trouble. — Plato Copy Share Image
“He sensed Death with a depth and clarity of which only small children or great philosophers are capable, philosophers who are themselves… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
Sometimes I say philosophers should be at the table because they're the only people who know that they're not going to walk… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
“Only a philosopher would consider taking Oedipus as a model for a normal, unproblematic relation between an action and the maxim of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I grew up in a household that really encouraged reading and writing. My mother loves philosophy and is constantly reading philosophy and… — Lulu Wang Copy Share Image
I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known. This was the sound conclusion of the Academic sceptics,… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
“Since then, as philosophers prove, appearance tyrannizes over truth and is lord of happiness, to appearance I must devote myself.” — Plato Copy Share Image
Contemporary philosophers are facing problems that were unthinkable only one century ago, such as whether space and time are mutually Independent, whether… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
“Love is blind, they say; sex is impervious to reason and mocks the power of all philosophers. But, in fact, a man's… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Some philosophers can't bear to say simple things, like "Suppose a dog bites a man." They feel obliged instead to say, "Suppose… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's not just that there is a cooperative spirit of investigation there, where we all recognise that we are engaged in a… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
“The phaenomena afforded by trades, are a part of the history of nature, and therefore may both challenge the naturalist's curiosity and… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
“They were like two philosophers starting from the same initial premise of life and each, by irrefutable argument, arriving at a diametrically… — James Jones Copy Share Image
“Philosophy is not confined to philosophers, thank God. Everyone has a philosophy. As Cicero famously said, you have no choice between having… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Only philosophers embark on this perilous expedition to the outermost reaches of language and existence. Some of them fall off, but others… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Philosophers are not honest enough in their work, although they make a lot of virtuous noise when the problem of truthfulness is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is a sort of myth of History that philosophers have… History for philosophers is some sort of great, vast continuity in… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“Old Sam Hamilton saw this coming. He said there couldn’t be any more universal philosophers. The weight of knowledge is too great… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“But among this people there can be no doubt about the rights of women, because, as I have before said, the Gy,… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton Copy Share Image
All philosophers make the common mistake of taking contemporary man as their starting point and of trying, through an analysis of him,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“One UniVerse for the Living While palaces attest to the power of men, And monuments mark their wars, Little remains of the… — Nancy Boutilier Copy Share Image
“It is well known that geometry presupposes not only the concept of space but also the first fundamental notions for constructions in… — Bernhard Riemann Copy Share Image
“Thus identified with astronomy, in proclaiming truths supposed to be hostile to Scripture, Geology has been denounced as the enemy of religion.… — David Brewster Copy Share Image
The French have never produced a great philosopher. Great wine maybe, but no great philosophers. — Michael O'Leary Copy Share Image
There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
All that philosophers have done is interpret the world in different ways. It is our job to change it. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Comedians are thinkers. The best ones are akin to philosophers, in my opinion. — Ted Alexandro Copy Share Image