Philosopher Quotes

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According to Nietzche," said a sharp new voice, making them all jump, "philosophy is the biography of the philosopher. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I have loved you in every manner that my imagination could contrive. I have wanted you so deeply that my body sang with pain and… — Nick Bantock
How can we satisfy ourselves without going on in infinitum? And, after all, what satisfaction is there in that infinite progression? Let us remember the… — David Hume
Not only after two or three centuries, but in a million years, life will still be as it was; life does not change, it remains… — Anton Chekhov
A person of your century: Great persons are of their time. Not all were born into a period worthy of them, and many so born… — Baltasar Gracian
It's usually best not to ask philosophers anything, precisely because they have the habit of what in the Persian language is called sanud: the profitless… — Nick Harkaway
The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Christ alone, of all the philosophers, magicians, etc., has affirmed eternal life as the most important certainty, the infinity of time, the futility of death,… — Vincent Van Gogh
Five hundred years before Christ was born, the Greek philosopher Heraclitus told his students that "everything changes except the law of change". He said: "You… — Dale Carnegie
We can't define anything precisely. If we attempt to, we get into the paralysis of thought that comes to philosophers... one saying to the other:… — Richard P. Feynman
I thought of the words of the Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne. "If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say… — Josh Lanyon
The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of the philosopher, and laughed over the strange perspective… — Oscar Wilde
Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality of existence; he… — Friedrich Nietzsche
You're like a philosopher with tattoos. — J.A. Redmerski
No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
This work, though it deals only with eating and drinking, which are regarded in the eyes of our supernaturalistic mock-culture as the lowest acts, is… — Ludwig Feuerbach
The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is generally understood. Indeed,… — John Maynard Keynes
Philosophers there are who try to make themselves believe that this life is happy; but they believe it only while they are saying it, and… — Samuel Johnson
The philosopher should be a man willing to listen to every suggestion,but determined to judge for himself.He should not be a respector of persons,but of… — Michael Faraday
It is well when the wise and the learned discover new truths; but how much better to diffuse the truths already discovered amongst the multitudes.… — Horace Mann

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