Philosopher Quotes

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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction,… — Isaac Asimov
If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women. — Abigail Adams
St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to attain the Divine. That is… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot. — Douglas Adams
Dostoevsky is such a bad writer it is hard to take him seriously as a novelist, though he is a wonderful philosopher. — John Banville
Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity. — Samuel Beckett
Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions. — Isaiah Berlin
Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians. — Mortimer Adler
Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He saw the future course for… — Benazir Bhutto
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher. — Ambrose Bierce
I'm most impressed by the Russian writers, so I love reading the works of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Another author who has informed the way I… — Andrea Bocelli
It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason… — Edward de Bono
It's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor. — Edward de Bono
I don't see myself as a philosopher. That's awfully boring. — Ray Bradbury
One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then. — John Burroughs
All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others. — Samuel Butler
For my future I have no concern, and as a true philosopher, I never would have any, for I know not what it may be:… — Giacomo Casanova
To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures. — Nicolas Chamfort
A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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