Philosopher Quotes

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I was introduced to Mr. Davy, who has rooms adjoining mine (in the Royal Institution); he is a very agreeable and intelligent young man, and… — John Dalton
The great masses of people do not consist of philosophers; precisely for the masses, [religious] faith is often the sole foundation of a moral attitude...… — Adolf Hitler
For the learning of every virtue there is an appropriate discipline, and for the learning of suspended judgment the best discipline is philosophy. — Bertrand Russell
It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity. — Ariel Durant
The German philosopher Walter Benjamin had the curious notion that we could change the past. For most of us, the past is fixed while the… — Terry Eagleton
I am not a philosopher. — Hans Bethe
To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the… — Arthur Compton
The method of exposition which philosophers have adopted leads many to suppose that they are simply inquiries, that they have no interest in the conclusions… — Morris Raphael Cohen
It is not impossible to think that the minds of philosophers sometimes act like those of other mortals, and that, having once been determined by… — Morris Raphael Cohen
Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease. — Anthony Daniels
We're in a post-conceptual era where it's really the artist's idea and vision that are prized rather than the ability to master the crafts that… — Jeffrey Deitch
As a philosopher, I'm not obliged to explore every unknown wilderness. — Harry Frankfurt
Like the philosopher, the author views his task as one of establishing a clear connection between life and history, and of making the past bear… — Lion Feuchtwanger
Last night I dreamed I went to hillbilly heaven and you know who greeted me at the gate? The ole cowboy-philosopher himself, Will Rogers. — Tex Ritter
The human understanding is unquiet; it cannot stop or rest, and still presses onward, but in vain. Therefore it is that we cannot conceive of… — Francis Bacon
A hundred years ago, Auguste Compte, ... a great philosopher, said that humans will never be able to visit the stars, that we will never… — Michio Kaku
Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers. — Frederic Farrar
The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of… — Karl Jaspers
Political dissension is doubtless a less evil than the lethargy of despotism: but still it is a great evil, and it would be as worthy… — Thomas Jefferson
It was a strange man, a kind of black humorist, a true philosopher. One day he said: "If my books could ensure an increase in… — William C. Brown

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