Philosopher Quotes

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Look at them. There are your true philosophers. I think that Mack and the boys know everything that has ever happened in the world and… — John Steinbeck
According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God had written, not… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
When life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind. — Khalil Gibran
What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats? — Henry David Thoreau
A philosopher knows that in reality he knows very little. That is why he constantly strives to achieve true insight. Socrates was one of these… — Jostein Gaarder
And although I have seen nothing but black crows in my life, it doesn't mean that there's no such thing as a white crow. Both… — Jostein Gaarder
Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and a great one. — George Bernard Shaw
As a philosopher, if I were speaking to a purely philosophic audience I should say that I ought to describe myself as an Agnostic, because… — Bertrand Russell
I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that thatâ€™s a tree', pointing to a tree that… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Every child's bedroom is as important as a telescope orbiting the planet earth or a philosopher's study. — Jerry Spinelli
Fire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars. I will not forget thy word. Amen. — Blaise Pascal
I hold firmly to my original views. After all I am a philosopher. — Voltaire
Were I a philosopher, I should write a philosophy of toys, showing that nothing else in life need to be taken seriously, and that Christmas… — Robert Wilson Lynd
The philosopher Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king. Said… — Anthony de Mello
Indeed, at hearing the news that 'the old god is dead', we philosophers and 'free spirits' feel illuminated by a new dawn; our heart overflows… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually… — H. L. Mencken
Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue. — Anne Carson
If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women. The world perhaps would laugh at me, and accuse me of… — Abigail Adams
I am a man and alive. For this reason I am a novelist. And, being a novelist, I consider myself superior to the saint, te… — D. H. Lawrence
The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. The great philosophers have always been able to clear away the complexities and… — Mortimer Adler

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