Philosopher Quotes

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As [Gershom] Scholem explains, this [Shabbetaian] doctrine is connected to the idea that 'the elect are fundamentally different from the crowd and not to be… — Shadia Drury
The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas. Its hard absolute optimism is repulsive to… — Joseph Conrad
The mathematic, then, is an art. As such it has its styles and style periods. It is not, as the layman and the philosopher (who… — Oswald Spengler
Today, it is not only that our kings do not know mathematics, but our philosophers do not know mathematics and - to go a step… — J. Robert Oppenheimer
The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth.... He whose desires are drawn toward… — Plato
I became a virtuoso of deceit. It wasn't pleasure I was after, it was knowledge. I consulted the strictest moralists to learn how to appear,… — Christopher Hampton
The Country is both the Philosopher's Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God. — William Penn
Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently or not. — Stephen Vizinczey
And now, my friend, I am going to expose to you all my weaknesses. All men, I believe, are under a necessity of paying tribute… — Peter Abelard
The ancient Greek philosopher Epictetus taught his students that what happens to them is not as important as what they believe happens to them. In… — Stanley Krippner
To us it seems incredible that the Greek philosophers should have scanned so deeply into right and wrong and yet never noticed the immorality of… — Brigid Brophy
Osho is one of India's greatest mystics.... I see him as one of the world's great teachers, thinkers, philosophers and guides of our times. I… — Kabir Bedi
To change man, the audience by which he judges himself must be changed. A man is defined by his audience: by the people, institutions, authors,… — Luke Rhinehart
It appears that the solution of the problem of time and space is reserved to philosophers who, like Leibniz, are mathematicians, or to mathematicians who,… — Hans Reichenbach
What great philosophers do for us is not to hand out such an all-purpose system. It is to light up and clarify some special aspect… — Mary Midgley
If true happiness depended on the thoughts of man, then all philosophers and deep thinkers would be filled to overflowing with it. — Sadhu Sundar Singh
Kings were wont to honour philosophers, but if I had such I would honour them as angels that should have such piety in them that… — Elizabeth I
The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves. — M H Abrams
I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter… — Moses Mendelssohn
In stark contrast with the views of the Greek philosophers and with those of the rest of western intellectuals to the present day, Chinese Taoist… — Jesus Huerta de Soto

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