Philosopher Quotes

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Our civilized world is nothing but a great masquerade. You encounter knights, parsons, soldiers, doctors, lawyers, priests, philosophers and a thousand more: but they are… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Therefore, even the lover of myth is a philosopher; for myth is composed of wonder. — Aristotle
She was incomprehensible, for, in her, soul and spirit were one - the beauty of her body was the essence of her soul. She was… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however little… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Socrates became a trendsetter. Other philosophers, including Plato and Aristotle and Gus, quickly followed suit, dropping their last names too. And, for centuries after that… — Demetri Martin
Before researchers become researches they should become philosophers. — Masanobu Fukuoka
Don't listen to people telling you that getting up early is best. RenÃ© Descartes is one of history's most important philosophers, but he rarely got… — Gideon Defoe
If religions are diseases of the human psyche, as the philosopher Grintholde asserts, then religious wars must be reckoned the resultant sores and cankers infecting… — Jack Vance
Philosophers, for example, often fail to recognize that their remarks about the universe apply also to themselves and their remarks. If the universe is meaningless,… — Alan Watts
It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards. — Soren Kierkegaard
Socrates himself said, 'One thing only I know, and this is that I know nothing.' Remember this statement, because it is an admission that is… — Jostein Gaarder
Some philosophers can't bear to say simple things, like "Suppose a dog bites a man." They feel obliged instead to say, "Suppose a dog d… — Daniel Dennett
The poetâ€¦is the man of metaphor: while the philosopher is interested only in the truth of meaning, beyond even signs and names, and the sophist… — Jacques Derrida
Kings and philosophers defecate, and so do ladies. — Michel de Montaigne
You're not very good at being contemplative," Milo said. "You always sound like some bad caricature of a philosopher, like those fortune cookies with 'Confucius… — Amanda Hocking
Philosophers are people who know less and less about more and more, until they know nothing about everything. Scientists are people who know more and… — Konrad Lorenz
The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones. — Giacomo Casanova
They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death. — Anton Chekhov
Giving importance to what we think because we thought it, taking our own selves not only (to quote the Greek philosopher) as the measure of… — Fernando Pessoa
I leaf through the ancient philosophers and find my newest discoveries there. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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