Philosopher Quotes

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Only as an individual can man become a philosopher. — Karl Jaspers
The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only… — Will Durant
To become a philosopher, start by walking very slowly. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Love from its very nature must be transitory. To seek for a secret that would render it constant would be as wild a search as… — Mary Wollstonecraft
I have observed that male writers tend to get asked what they think and women what they feel. In my experience, and that of a… — Eleanor Catton
Know that the philosopher has power over the stars, and not the stars over him. — Paracelsus
It is my intent to beget a good understanding between the chymists and the mechanical philosophers who have hitherto been too little acquainted with one… — Robert Boyle
The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the abyss looks into you. Probably no other line… — Michael Connelly
He [Professor Moriarty] is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected… — Arthur Conan Doyle
The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind. — Mortimer Adler
The Chinese philosopher Chuang-Tzu stated that true empathy requires listening with the whole being: The hearing that is only in the ears is one thing.… — Marshall B. Rosenberg
For they, the philosophers, were considered teachers of right living, which is far more excellent, since to speak well belongs only to a few, but… — Lactantius
The savage lives simply through ignorance and idleness or laziness, but the philosopher lives simply through wisdom. — Henry David Thoreau
I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the dull craft of… — Oswald Spengler
Einstein, my upset stomach hates your theory [of General Relativity]â€”it almost hates you yourself! How am I to' provide for my students? What am I… — Paul Ehrenfest
It is decidedly not true that "nice guys finish last," as that highly original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to have said. — Alan Greenspan
Mathematicians have sought knowledge in figures, Philosophers in systems, Logicians in subtleties, and Metaphysicians in sounds. It is not in any nor in all of… — Charles Caleb Colton
Philosophers get attention only when they appear to be doing something sinister--corrupting the youth, undermining the foundations of civilization, sneering at all we hold dear.… — Richard Rorty
I illustrate with a quotation from the atheist philosopher Richard Rorty, who died recently and is, I suspect, now having a lengthy conversation with his… — Richard Rorty
Science has so far been unable to tell us how self-aware dogs are, much less whether they have anything like our conscious thoughts. This is… — John Bradshaw

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