Philosopher Quotes

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It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of… — Albert Pike
To the natural philosopher, there is no natural object unimportant or trifling. From the least of Nature's works he may learn the greatest lessons. — John Herschel
No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains have… — James A. Garfield
Though philosophers like to define poetry as irrational fancy, for us it is practical, humorous, reasonable way of being ourselves. — Robert Graves
Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately… — Bertrand Russell
The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the… — Alfred North Whitehead
The real searcher after truth will not receive the old because it is old, or reject the new because it is new. He will not… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists. — Richard P. Feynman
A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind… — Oliver Goldsmith
An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. — John W. Gardner
Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers; read, study and think a great deal of life... — Robert Henri
Dwell, O mind, within yourself; Enter no other's home. If you but seek there, you will find All you are searching for. God, the true… — Ramakrishna
Today secular philosophers call that kind of divine invocation God of the gaps-which comes in handy, because there has never been a shortage of gaps… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
These 'philosophers', etc., seem unaware, to give a specific example, that by teaching and preaching 'identity', which is empirically non-existent in this actual world, they… — Alfred Korzybski
An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other human being, might… — Bertrand Russell
they go and set up free-will with the heathen philosophers and say that a man's free will is the cause why God chooseth and not… — William Tyndale
I would like to be a philosopher in ancient Athens and a poet in ancient China. — Shan Sa
William James was not a prophet. He was a philosopher whose philosophy reflected his profound humanity. — Stanley Hauerwas
I sometimes wish I had been educated a Catholic, in order to unite the poetry of religion with its higher principles. Are they necessarily inseparable?… — James Fenimore Cooper

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