Philosopher Quotes

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There may have been somewhere, as a few eighteenth-century philosophers dreamed, a group of peaceful men who got together one evening after work and drew… — Henry Hazlitt
I wish, my dear Kepler, that we could have a good laugh together at the extraordinary stupidity of the mob. What do you think of… — Galileo Galilei
Al-Ghazali is the most important philosophical theologian of classical Islam, and Moderation in Belief is among his most important works. It sets out al-Ghazali's Ash?arite… — Peter Adamson
In PLATO AT THE GOOGLEPLEX, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein set out to showcase, in sometimes startling ways, the continuing relevance of a classic philosopher. But what's… — Michael Dirda
I've argued that many of what philosophers call moral sentiments can be seen in other species. In chimpanzees and other animals, you see examples of… — Frans de Waal
And we daily in our experiments electrise bodies plus or minus, as we think proper. [These terms we may use till your Philosophers give us… — Benjamin Franklin
Even if a king defeats his enemy in battle, that still doesn't settle anything. There are other, less numerous armies of philosophers and scientists, and… — Cyrano de Bergerac
To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world,… — Abraham Cowley
A philosopher who says, 'There are no truths, only interpretations,' risks the retort: 'Is that true, or only an interpretation?' — Roger Scruton
The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the… — Ernst Mach
I think philosophers can do things akin to theoretical scientists, in that, having read about empirical data, they too can think of what hypotheses and… — Robert Nozick
The scientists often have more unfettered imaginations than current philosophers do. Relativity theory came as a complete surprise to philosophers, and so did quantum mechanics,… — Robert Nozick
The philosopher cannot seriously put to himself questions that his civilization has not lived. — William Barrett
Vain is the word of a philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man. For just as there is no profit in medicine if… — Epicurus
But Adam Smith was a philosopher as well as well as an economist, famous in his time as much for his Theory of Moral Sentiments… — Paul Ormerod
I also realized that the philosophers, far from ridding me of my vain doubts, only multiplied the doubts that tormented me and failed to remove… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an… — Ambrose Bierce
When they can't win a debate (can they ever?), leftists deploy what the late novelist/philosopher Ayn Rand called the argument from intimidation. Instead of trying… — Don Feder
"When we do not know what harbor we are making for," the Roman philosopher Seneca wrote, "no wind is the right wind." Persons have vision… — Joan D. Chittister
The proof that a philosopher does not know what he is talking about is apt to sadden his followers before it reacts on himself. — Henry Adams

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