Philosopher Quotes

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It has often struck me that the relation of two important members of the social body to one another has never been sufficiently considered, or… — James Payn
Novelists don't age as quickly as philosophers, who often face professional senility in their late twenties. — Martin Amis
The greatest horrors in the history of mankind are not due to the ambition of the Napoleons or the vengeance of the Agamemnons, but to… — Aleister Crowley
It is a wonderful thing to see a first-rate philosopher at prayer. Tough-minded thinking and tenderhearted reverence are friends, not enemies. We have for too… — Soren Kierkegaard
To philosopher and historian the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events. — David Hume
The Quest of the Holy Grail, the Search for the Stone of the Philosophers - by whatever name we choose to call the Great Work… — Aleister Crowley
When the boy begins to understand that the visible point is preceded by an invisible point, that the shortest distance between two points is conceived… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven knowledge. — Imre Lakatos
I'm not a minister, I'm not a philosopher, I'm not a politician, I'm in another category. — Sun Ra
Philosophers are all caught up in their philosophies. That's their house of cards. Religious leaders are caught up in their religious movements to the point… — Frederick Lenz
The myth that John Locke was the philosopher behind the American Republic, is easily refuted by examining how Locke's philosophy steered Thomas Jefferson, for example. — Robert Trout
The world's philosophers and theologians searched for answers to the same mysteries. — Robert Vaughn
Science fiction has a way of letting you talk about where we are in the world and letting you be a bit of a pop… — Brit Marling
How something important happens is the business of historians and newspapers, the effect it has is the business of philosophers and writers and especially poets. — Karl Shapiro
Why are philosophers intent on forcing others to believe things? Is that a nice way to behave towards someone? — Robert Nozick
Find the god in your own heart and you will understand by direct intuition what all the great teachers, real mystics, true philosophers and inspired… — Paul Brunton
Suppose cats became philosophers, they would see a cat universe and have a cat solution of the problem of the universe, and a cat ruling… — Swami Vivekananda
To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time, especially in that kind of mock… — Victor Hugo
Those who have the largest hearts have the soundest understandings; and they are the truest philosophers who can forget themselves. — William Hazlitt
There is nothing more dangerous than a philosopher who wants to change the world — Piero Scaruffi

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