Philosopher Quotes

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Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.' — Immanuel Kant
All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought… — Immanuel Kant
I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate. — Jack Kevorkian
God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on… — Maimonides
All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as… — Maimonides
However, it was the great 18th century social philosophers John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau who brought the concept of a social contract between… — Simon Mainwaring
There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections. — Joseph de Maistre
For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd. — Josh McDowell
No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it's the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco… — Moliere
I'm really clear about what my life mission is now. There's no more depression or lethargy, and I feel like I've returned to the athlete… — Alanis Morissette
In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all. — Iris Murdoch
All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher. — Blaise Pascal
Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game. — Octavio Paz
My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries. — Steven Pinker
Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans… — Albert Pike
The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality… — Herbert Read
Women do not often fall in love with philosophers. — Samuel Richardson

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