“Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.” — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Great philosophers become immortal - they make undeniable impacts on culture. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Before researchers become researches they should become philosophers. — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“Poets and philosophers are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“With great passion, observe every details of the sacred journey.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“The philosophers write about things as they are and as they appear to be, but as an artist I find that appearance… — Gary Inbinder Copy Share Image
“When you travel like I did, vague about destination and with an open-ended itinerary, a holy-seeming openness takes over your character. It's… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“Children are the only bold philosophers. And bold philosophers have to be children. Precisely like children, and there should always be: but… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“For in this Case, we are not to give Credit to the Many, who say, that none ought to be educated but… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Everything that is popular, it has been said, deserves the attention of philosophers: and this is for the obvious reason, that although… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“He(E.A.Poe) cannot be blamed for not saying clearly what beauty is. The greatest philosophers in the world acknowledge in the end that… — Étienne Gilson Copy Share Image
Contemporary philosophers, even the rationalistic minded ones, have on the whole agreed that no one has intelligibly banished the mystery of fact. — William James Copy Share Image
I have used the philosophers' ideas for my own private literary purposes, but I don't think that I'm a thinker. I suppose… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“It is now generally admitted, at any rate by philosophers, that the existence of a being having the attributes which define the… — Alfred Jules Ayer Copy Share Image
Philosophy used to be a field that had content, but then 'natural philosophy' became physics, and physics has only continued to make… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
Philosophers feel a little more cautious about letting down their technical guard lest the general public doesn't recognize their special credentials. It's… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
I am very Aristotelian in approach - not in detail - so I always find I'm saying things that get people frustrated… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
Future generations may or may not judge Wittgenstein to be one of the great philosophers. Even if they do not, however, he… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
“Their [philosophers] thinking is, in fact, far less a discovery than a re-recognizing, a remembering, a return and a home-coming to a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The soul is a fire that darts its rays through all the senses; it is in this fire that existence consists; all… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
In England, philosophers are honoured, respected; they rise to public offices, they are buried with the kings... In France warrants are issued… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“Modern life seems set up so that we can avoid loneliness at all costs, but maybe it's worthwhile to face it occasionally.… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
Contemporary philosophers have exercised themselves with the problem of our knowledge of other minds. Enmeshed in the dogma of the ghost in… — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share Image
“Jürgen Habermas currently ranks as one of the most influential philosophers in the world. Bridging continental and Anglo-American traditions of thought, he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“disputing about those already made. I therefore never answered M. Nollet, and the event gave me no cause to repent my silence;… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Descartes' Meditations; doubt rise and results in clear and distinct ideas. all in the mind and all innate. Spinoza bakes the best… — Aporva Kala Copy Share Image
“We say that the dangerous criminal is the educated criminal. We say that the most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
17th century philosophers were not in a position to understand the mind as well as we can today, since the advent of… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
“Most philosophers do not want intellectual matters to reduce to a question of morality (obedience or rebellion to God's Word). They want… — Greg L. Bahnsen Copy Share Image
That was sort of the 'Second City' approach, which was try to be intelligent and assume your audience is intelligent. We were… — Joe Flaherty Copy Share Image
Some philosophers see into themselves, and some into their times; still others forge an alliance with the future. — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
“The people who actually make the advances in theoretical physics don't think in these categories that the philosophers and the historians of… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
By renouncing the Bible, philosophers swing from their moorings upon all moral subjects..It is the only correct map of the human heart… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
Children are the boldest philosophers. They enter life naked, not covered by the smallest fig leaf of dogma, absolutes, creeds. This is… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“Some of the best things that have ever happened to us wouldn’t have happened to us, if it weren’t for some of… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Philosopy is an important subject and has it uses, but when it comes to determining the purpose of life, even the Wisest… — Anonymous Copy Share Image