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Philosopher Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- Say, Not so, and you will out circle the philosophers.
- The savage lives simply through ignorance and idleness or laziness, but the philosopher lives simply through wisdom.
- A farmer, a hunter, a soldier, a reporter, even a philosopher, may be daunted; but nothing can deter a poet, for he is actuated by…
- There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers
- What the first philosopher taught the last will have to repeat.
- Every man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the poet.
- To be a philosopher... is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.
- When we walk, we naturally go to the fields and woods: what would become of us, if we walked only in a garden or a…
- To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.
- There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.
- To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live…
- What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
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- Dostoevsky is such a bad writer it is hard to take him seriously as a novelist, though he is a wonderful philosopher. — John Banville
- Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity. — Samuel Beckett
- Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions. — Isaiah Berlin
- Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians. — Mortimer Adler
- Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He saw the… — Benazir Bhutto
- All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher. — Ambrose Bierce
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- It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind… — Edward de Bono