Philosopher Quotes

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Greek philosophers considered sport a religious and civic-in a word, moral-undertaking. Sport, they said, is morally serious because mankind's noblest aim is the loving contemplation… — George Will
Long before Einstein told us that matter is energy, Machiavelli and Hobbes and other modern political philosophers defined man as a lump of matter whose… — George Will
The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other peoples. — William Ralph Inge
A philosophy is characterized more by the formulation of its problem than by its solution of them. — Susanne Katherina Langer
The continual pursuit of meanings-wider, clearer, more negotiable, more articulate meanings- is philosophy. — Susanne Katherina Langer
It is right to prefer our own country to all others, because we are children and citizens before we can be travellers or philosophers. — George Santayana
At best, the true philosopher can fulfil his mission very imperfectly, which is to pilot himself, or at most a few voluntary companions who may… — George Santayana
Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them. — Wallace Stevens
There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fontenelle says he would undertake to persuade… — Oliver Goldsmith
If you set your heart upon philosophy, you must straightway prepare yourself to be laughed at and mocked by many who will say Behold a… — Epictetus
A true philosopher is beyond the reach of fortune. — Walter Savage Landor
All schools of philosophy, and almost all authors, are rather to be frequented for exercise than for weight. — Walter Savage Landor
Few parents are aware of the difficulties that beset the minds of the little philosophers and theologians who sit upon their knees or play at… — Lucy Larcom
Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Philosophers.-We are full of things which take us out of ourselves. — Blaise Pascal
The great philosophers are poets who believe in the reality of their poems. — Antonio Machado
Philosophy has a fine saying for everything.-For Death it has an entire set. — Laurence Sterne
Let no young man delay the study of philosophy, and let no old man become weary of it; for it is never too early nor… — Epicurus
Women make us poets, children make us philosophers. — Malcolm De Chazal
Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make. — Gaston Bachelard

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