Philosopher Quotes

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I do not need the musing of the philosophers to tell me what I am doing. It would be more interesting to let me know… — Louise Bourgeois
Philosophers and aestheticians may offer elegant and profound definitions of art and beauty, but for the painter they are all summed up in the phrase:… — Gino Severini
Some philosophers have been of opinion that our immortal part acquires during this life certain habits of action or of sentiment, which become forever indissoluble,… — Erasmus Darwin
The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose thoughts… — John Muir
Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers. — Harriet Beecher Stowe
There is a form of laughter that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of childhood, the expression of a laughter… — William Osler
Spending that many hours in the saddle gave a man plenty of time to think. That's why so many cowboys fancied themselves Philosophers. — Charles Marion Russell
Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of… — William Osler
Golden Verses So-called because they are "good as gold." They are by some attributed to Epicarmos, and by others to Empedocles, but always go under… — Pythagoras
September's Baccalaureate A combination is Of Crickets - Crows - and Retrospects And a dissembling Breeze That hints without assuming - An Innuendo sear That… — Emily Dickinson
I am sorry the infernal Divinities, who visit mankind with diseases, and are therefore at perpetual war with Doctors, should have prevented my seeing all… — Erasmus Darwin
He was . . . a strange blending of Puritan and Cavalier, with a touch of the ancient philosopher, and more than a touch of… — Robert E. Howard
Some are slaves of ambition or money, but others are interested in understanding life itself. These give themselves the name of philosophers , and they… — Pythagoras
If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
To paraphrase the philosopher Nietzsche, he who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how. I've found that 20 percent of any change… — Tony Robbins
When you read Boethius and some of the Renaissance philosophers, they talk a lot about the other spheres. There's a music of the spheres. There's… — Frederick Lenz
...the physicist cannot simply surrender to the philosopher the critical contemplation of the theoretical foundations; for, he himself knows best, and feels more surely where… — Albert Einstein
Accustomed to trace the operation of general causes, and the exemplification of general laws, in circumstances where the uninformed and unenquiring eye perceives neither novelty… — John Herschel
Disputes among natural philosophers are of use to science, as the quarrels of the great, and the clamors of the little, are necessary to freedom… — Hal Hellman
How I understand the philosopher - as a terrible explosive, endangering everthing... my concept of the philosopher is worlds removed from any concept that would… — Friedrich Nietzsche

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