Philosopher Quotes

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Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum -- "I think that I think, therefore I think that I am;" as close an approach to certainty as any… — Ambrose Bierce
We should realize that, if [Socrates] demanded that the wisest men should rule, he clearly stressed that he did not mean the learned men; in… — Karl Popper
And usually [the philosopher] philosophizes either in order to resign himself to life, or to seek some finality in it, or to distract himself and… — Miguel de Unamuno
This man has conquered the world! What have you done?" The philosopher replied without an instant's hesitation, "I have conquered the need to conquer the… — Steven Pressfield
[W]here other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given. — Jane Austen
Oh, why does compassion weaken us?' It doesn't, really...Somewhere where it all balances out-don't the philosophers have a name for it, the perfect place, the… — Robin McKinley
...To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage — Plutarch
Philosophers are often like little children, who first scribble random lines on a piece of paper with their pencils, and now ask an adult 'What… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Life is just a series of peaks and troughs. And you don't know whether you're in a trough until you're climbing out, or on a… — Ricky Gervais
What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to… — Viktor E. Frankl
That he liked to think of himself as a philosopher. That he questioned all things, even the most simple, to the extent that when someone… — Nicole Krauss
We rely upon the poets, the philosophers, and the playwrights to articulate what most of us can only feel, in joy or sorrow. They illuminate… — Helen Hayes
You are the patient one, Mademoiselle,' said Poirot to Miss Debenham. She shrugged her shoulders slightly. 'What else can one do?' You are a philosopher,… — Agatha Christie
What do they know-all these scholars, all these philosophers, all the leaders of the world - about such as you? They have convinced themselves that… — Isaac Bashevis Singer
I see the beauty of Mike's attempt to devise an ideal ethic and applaud his recognition that such must start by junking the present sexual… — Robert A. Heinlein
Philosophers have often held dispute As to the seat of thought in man and brute For that the power of thought attends the latter My… — Edgar Allan Poe
Like the famous mad philosopher said, when you stare into the void, the void stares also; but if you cast into the void, you get… — Charles Stross
Before you realize this truth, say the Yogis, you will always be in despair, a notion nicely expressed in this exasperated line from the Greek… — Elizabeth Gilbert
What man needs is not just the persistent posing of ultimate questions, but the sense of what is feasible, what is possible, what is correct,… — Hans-Georg Gadamer
here was the secret of happiness, about which philosophers had disputed for so many ages, at once discovered; happiness might now be bought for a… — Thomas de Quincey

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