Philosopher Quotes

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Scientists have power by virtue of the respect commanded by the discipline... We live with poets and politicians, preachers and philosophers. All have their ways… — Stephen Jay Gould
In the words of the philosopher Sceptum, the founder of my profession: am I going to get paid for this? — Terry Pratchett
The student is half afraid to meet one of the great philosophers face to face. He feels himself inadequate and thinks he will not understand… — C.S. Lewis
But is all this true?" said Brutha. Didactylos shrugged. "Could be. Could be. We are here and it is now. The way I see it… — Terry Pratchett
They [intellectuals] coined most of the slogans that guided the butcheries of Bolshevism, Fascism, and Nazism. Intellectuals extolling the delights of murder, writers advocating censorship,… — Ludwig von Mises
Philosophers have long conceded, however, that every man has two educators: 'that which is given to him, and the other that which he gives himself.… — Carter G. Woodson
To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live… — Henry David Thoreau
...I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget… — William Faulkner
Philosophers have argued for centuries about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but materialists have known all along that it… — Tom Robbins
To the philosophers of India, however, Relativity is no new discovery, just as the concept of light years is no matter for astonishment to people… — Alan Watts
I'm an outlaw, not a philosopher, but I know this much: there's meaning in everything, all things are connected, and a good champagne is a… — Tom Robbins
Comedians and jazz musicians have been more comforting and enlightening to me than preachers or politicians or philosophers or poets or painters or novelists of… — Kurt Vonnegut
They say - "they" being the great philosophers, or possibly the cast of Seinfeld - that breaking up is like pushing over a Coke machine.… — Jennifer Weiner
For particulars, as everyone knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone… — Aldous Huxley
You beat the liver out of a goose to get a pÃ¢tÃ©; you pound the muscles of a man's cardia to get a philosopher. — Djuna Barnes
The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life. If any item… — Elizabeth Gilbert
A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynastyâ€”and, by which definition, a philosopherâ€”dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never quite sure that… — Tom Stoppard
The stone that was rolled before Christ's tomb might appropriately be called the philosopher's stone because its removal gave not only the pharisees but, now… — Soren Kierkegaard
I am Plato's Republic. Mr. Simmons is Marcus. I want you to meet Jonathan Swift, the author of that evil political book, Gulliver's Travels! And… — Ray Bradbury

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