Philosopher Quotes

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A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A married philosopher belongs to comedy. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Every man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the poet. — Henry David Thoreau
In our corrupted state, common weaknesses and defects contribute more towards the reconciling us to one another than all the precepts of the philosophers and… — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence. — Elie Wiesel
It is a proof of philosophical mediocrity, today, to look for a philosophy. — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
When I first collected these authorities, I was desirous that every quotation should be useful to some other end than the illustration of a word;… — Samuel Johnson
The simplicity of winter has a deep moral. The return of Nature, after such a career of splendor and prodigality, to habits so simple and… — John Burroughs
Professors of Greek forget or are unaware that Thomas Aquinas, who did not know Greek, was a better interpreter of Aristotle than any of them… — Allan Bloom
The facile economic and psychological debunking of the theoretical life cannot do away with its irreducible beauties. — Allan Bloom
The negative cautions of science are never popular. If the experimentalist would not commit himself, the social philosopher, the preacher, and the pedagogue tried the… — Margaret Mead
It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher. He must be like… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Philosophy will clip an angel's wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine - Unweave a rainbow. — John Keats
Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they… — Bertrand Russell
Philosophers have often looked for the defining feature of humans â€” language, rationality, culture, and so on. I'd stick with this: Man is the only… — Paul Bloom
Worship is to feel in your heart and express in some appropriate manner a humbling but delightful sense of admiring awe and astonished wonder and… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora's box did those of the body; only… — Jonathan Swift
The philosopher spends in becoming a man the time which the ambitious man spends in becoming a personage. — Philibert Joseph Roux
Philosophers are people who do violence, but have no army at their disposal, and so subjugate the world by locking it into a system. — Robert Musil

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