Philosopher Quotes

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We all experience many freakish and unexpected events - you have to be open to suffering a little. The philosopher Schopenhauer talked about how out… — Viggo Mortensen
I'd just like to see thinking come back in style. I haven't heard a new idea in eight years. Let's get ordinary people arguing and… — Timothy Leary
Some time ago a little-known Scottish philosopher wrote a book on what makes nations succeed and what makes them fail. The Wealth of Nations is… — George Akerlof
If moral statements are about something, then the universe is not quite as science suggests it is, since physical theories, having said nothing about God,… — David Berlinski
I don't pretend to be an intellectual or a philosopher. I just look. — Josef Koudelka
This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion. — Albert Einstein
Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it! — Philibert Joseph Roux
I'm the best promoter in the world because I haven't taken a day off work since I left the penitentiary, and because I have read… — Don King
A good philosopher is one who does not take ideas seriously. — Edward Abbey
Let divines and philosophers, statesmen and patriots, unite their endeavors to renovate the age by impressing the minds of men with the importance of educating… — Samuel Adams
I could be wrong. Not being certain is what being a philosopher is all about. — Terry Pratchett
I used to think that I was stupid, and then I met philosophers. — Terry Pratchett
Gardening is the handiest excuse for being a philosopher. Nobody guesses, nobody accuses, nobody knows, but there you are, Plato in the peonies, Socrates force-growing… — Ray Bradbury
The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Parmenides taught that the only things that are real are things which never change... and the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Heraclitus taught… — Philip K. Dick
The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied. — Sigmund Freud
The spiritual experience of the philosopher is the nourishing soil of philosophy; that without it there is no philosophy; and that, even so, spiritual experience… — Jacques Maritain
Learning to live ought to mean learning to die - to acknowledge, to accept, an absolute mortality - without positive outcome,or resurrection, or redemption, for… — Jacques Derrida
If someone asks, â€˜But what in the end is a philosopher?â€™ I would say â€˜A philosopher is a human being who fights in theory.â€™ — Louis Althusser
The philosopher creates, he doesn't reflect. — Gilles Deleuze
As a doctor I had no choice. As a philosopher I had too many. — Hannibal

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