Philosopher Quotes

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I think that the philosopher must, for his own purposes, carry methodological strictness to an extreme when he is investigating and pursuing his truths, but… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
I have always thought that clarity is a form of courtesy that the philosopher owes; moreover, this discipline of ours considers it more truly a… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
No book can teach you about yourself, no psychologist, none of the professors or philosophers. What they can teach you is what they think you… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
It was precisely this notion of infinite series which in the sixth century BC led the Greek philosopher Zeno to conclude that since an arrow… — Tom Stoppard
Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges,… — Ben Jonson
Men may be very learned, and yet very miserable; it is easy to be a deep geometrician, or a sublime astronomer, but very difficult to… — Oliver Goldsmith
Theologians and philosophers, who make God the creator of Nature and the architect of the Universe, reveal Him to us as an illogical and unbalanced… — Anatole France
Some philosophers fail to distinguish propositions from judgements; ... But in the real world it is more important that a proposition be interesting than that… — Alfred North Whitehead
If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone. — Benjamin Franklin
Linguistic philosophers continue to argue that probably music is not a language, that is in the philosophical debate. Another point of view is to say… — Robert Fripp
When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false. — Carl Friedrich Gauss
The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally… — Edward Gibbon
You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of… — Catherine the Great
The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In… — Graham Greene
The great Jewish scientists and philosophers of the last few generations - Spinoza, Einstein, Freud, Robert Oppenheimer and others - were natives of Europe and… — David Ben-Gurion
I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth… — Nicolaus Copernicus
Scientists disagree among themselves but they never fight over their disagreements. They argue about evidence or go out and seek new evidence. Much the same… — Richard Dawkins
Why is it the philosopher who is expected to be easier and not some scientist who is even more inaccessible? — Jacques Derrida
Scientists search for truth. Philosophers search for morality. A criminal trial searches for only one result: proof beyond a reasonable doubt. — Alan Dershowitz
There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another. — Rene Descartes

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