Philosopher Quotes

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The greatest artists, saints, philosophers, and, until quite recent times, scientists... have all assumed that the New Testament promise of eternal life is valid.... I'd… — Malcolm Muggeridge
I was a poet animated by philosophy, not a philosopher with poetic faculties. — Fernando Pessoa
We are often taught to look for the beauty in all things, so in finding it, the layman asks the philosopher while the philosopher asks… — Criss Jami
The theistic philosopher has a tendency to devalue insufficient worldviews, ideologies, and quite often common sense for the greater good, and in such cases, one… — Criss Jami
Lofty questions about the mind are fascinating to ask, philosophers have been asking them for three millennia both in India where I am from and… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
You will not find the warrior, the poet, the philosopher or the Christian by staring into his eyes as if he were your mistress: better… — C.S. Lewis
As Enlightenment philosophers and scholars consciously adopted the methods of science to establish such abstract concepts as rights, liberty, and justice, successive generations have become… — Michael Shermer
Plato, by the way, wanted to banish all poets from his proposed Utopia because they were liars. The truth was that Plato knew philosophers couldn't… — Kurt Vonnegut
A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds… — Leonard Louis Levinson
Was it not the great philosopher and mathematician Leibnitz who said that the more knowledge advances the more it becomes possible to condense it into… — J. Arthur Thomson
If God were to exist for the entire humanity, he would be profoundly vile, as he allows the existence of unfathomable sin, stupidity, madness, and… — Kedar Joshi
Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That… — Alfred Armand Montapert
The failure of the past philosophers is largely the failure to see the self-evident. — Kedar Joshi
The world is truly beautiful solely in the eyes of a true philosopher. — Kedar Joshi
Philosopher is becoming God in the process called life. — Kedar Joshi
God is a questioner; Man is a philosopher. — Kedar Joshi
The world is solely occupied by a questioner and a philosopher. — Kedar Joshi
Whenever God looks devilish, I see the philosopher fail. — Kedar Joshi
I'm a slumdog philosopher. — Kedar Joshi
There's no precedent for women philosophers and there's no precedence for most of the things I did. — Agnes Denes

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