Philosopher Quotes

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A philosopher once noted that people long for immortality but run out of things to do on a rainy afternoon. — David Niven
Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and… — Robert Green Ingersoll
To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men. — Aristotle
No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses. — Herman Melville
Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it; and every philosopher supplies the logic his own undoing. — Elbert Hubbard
A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers. — Friedrich Nietzsche
So far there has been no philosopher in whose hands philosophy has not grown into an apology for knowledge; on this point, at least, every… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Contemporary philosophers, even the rationalistic minded ones, have on the whole agreed that no one has intelligibly banished the mystery of fact. — William James
Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man. — Denis Diderot
What is it to be a philosopher? Is it not to be prepared against events? — Epictetus
Philosophers are as jealous as woman; each wants a monopoly of praise. — George Santayana
If a philosopher is not a man, he is anything but a philosopher; he is above all a pedant, and a pedant is a caricature… — Miguel de Unamuno
Saints cannot arise where there have been no warriors, nor philosophers where a prying beast does not remain hidden in the depths. — George Santayana
The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic. — Lord Chesterfield
Say, Not so, and you will out circle the philosophers. — Henry David Thoreau
Meditation is a gift confined to unknown philosophers and cows. Others don't begin to think till they begin to talk or write. — Finley Peter Dunne
Philosophers are in the habit of setting themselves before life and experience. — Friedrich Nietzsche
To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Modern civilization is largely devoted to the pursuit of the cult of delusion. There is no general information about the nature of mind. It is… — Sogyal Rinpoche
My instinct as a philosopher is that we are effectively approaching a multicentric world, which means we need to ask new, and for the traditional… — Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek

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