Philosopher Quotes

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Philosophers are never happy here. Now is not their time, and here is not their space. They live there, they live somewhere else. — Rajneesh
A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
What I understand by "philosopher": a terrible explosive in the presence of which everything is in danger. — Friedrich Nietzsche
If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants — Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophy is a purely personal matter. A genuine philosopher's credo is the outcome of a single complex personality; it cannot be transferred. No two persons,… — Havelock Ellis
Thou best philosopher, who yet dost keep/ Thy heritage, thou eye among the blind. — William Wordsworth
To be a philosopher... is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically. — Henry David Thoreau
Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers. — Luc de Clapiers
One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers. — James Russell Lowell
Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than this. — Plato
Grandeur . . . consists in form, and not in size: and to the eye of the philosopher, the curve drawn on a paper two… — Charles Kingsley
To a philosopher no circumstance, however trifling, is too minute. — Oliver Goldsmith
A vulgar man, in any ill that happens to him, blames others; a novice in philosophy blames himself; and a philosopher blames neither, the one… — Epictetus
Pure draughtsmen are philosophers and dialecticians. Colourists are epic poets. — Charles Baudelaire
The soul is a fire that darts its rays through all the senses; it is in this fire that existence consists; all the observations and… — Madame de Stael
Philosophers are capable of almost endless enjoyment of mutual misunderstanding. — Lyman Bryson
Philosophers say that nothing can be seen that is neither illuminated nor colored. — Leon Battista Alberti
These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to… — Jacques Derrida
I think a lot of philosophers get so absorbed and distracted from the real matters of the world that they get lost in irrelevant sub-details. — Pam Gems
By renouncing the Bible, philosophers swing from their moorings upon all moral subjects..It is the only correct map of the human heart that ever has… — Benjamin Rush

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