Philosopher Quotes

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Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder. — Plato
Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet… — Plato
Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution. — Robert Zend
There will be no end to the troubles of states,Or of humanity itself,Till philosophers become kings in this world,Or till those we now call kings… — Plato
It seems to me that philosophers should be more relaxed about whether or not some form of materialism is true. — Tyler Burge
To a Mistress Dying Lover. YOUR beauty, ripe and calm and fresh As eastern summers are, Must now, forsaking time and flesh, Add light to… — William Davenant
The intimate and the infinite are tangled together in this incandescent book, lit by Aristotleâ€™s bright spark of a daughter. Lucid even in nightmare, The… — Marina Endicott
Until philosophers rule as kings or those who are now called kings and leading men genuinely and adequately philosophise, that is, until political power and… — Plato
IÂ haveÂ aÂ theoryÂ thatÂ you can make any sentence seem profoundÂ byÂ writingÂ the name of aÂ dead philosopherÂ at theÂ endÂ of it. — Plato
Architects should be educated, skillful with the pencil, instructed in geometry, know much history, have followed the philosophers with attention, understand music, have some knowledge… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
By all implies marry if you get a great wife/husband, you are going to be pleased. If you get a bad a single, you are… — Socrates
No man of sense in the whole world believes in devils any more than he does in mermaids, vampires, gorgons, hydras, naiads, dryads, nymphs, fairies,… — Robert Green Ingersoll
The conception of Godhead formed by some devout philosophers and mystics has quite rightly been so immeasurably vast, though still assuredly utterly inadequate and necessarily… — Oliver Lodge
I have always taken as the standard of the mode of teaching and writing, not the abstract, particular, professional philosopher, but universal man, that I… — Ludwig Feuerbach
And though the philosopher may live remote from business, the genius of philosophy, if carefully cultivated by several, must gradually diffuse itself throughout the whole… — David Hume
Ever since men became capable of free speculation, their actions, in innumerable important respects, have depended upon their theories as to the world and human… — Bertrand Russell
The philosopher is in love with truth, that is, not with the changing world of sensation, which is the object of opinion, but with the… — Plato
.. the word ecology, coined by the German biologist and philosopher Ernst Haeckel (initially as oecology) in 1866. derives from the Greek oikos, "referring originally… — Warwick Fox
O sweet spontaneous earth how often have the doting fingers of prurient philosophers pinched and poked thee ,has the naughty thumb of science prodded thy… — E E Cummings
The Greek word for philosopher (philosophos) connotes a distinction from sophos. It signifies the lover of wisdom (knowledge) as distinguished from him who considers himself… — Karl Jaspers

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