Philosophers Quotes

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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction,… — Isaac Asimov
If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women. — Abigail Adams
St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to attain the Divine. That is… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
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
It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason… — Edward de Bono
It's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor. — Edward de Bono
We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers. — Emile M. Cioran
Philosophers and theologians have argued for centuries over the morality of targeted assassinations - a technique that the Israelis use with some frequency - without… — Eric Alterman
Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are… — Thomas Aquinas
Throughout all history, the great wise men and teachers, philosophers, and prophets have disagreed with one another on many different things. It is only on… — Earl Nightingale
According to Democritus, truth lies at the bottom of a well, the water of which serves as a mirror in which objects may be reflected.… — Charles Francis Richter
Of the first philosophers, then, most thought the principles which were of the nature of matter were the only principles of all things. That of… — Mary Hunter Austin
Science has now confirmed what philosophers, mystics, and other intuitive people have long declared: every human being has been literally "engineered for success" by his… — Maxwell Maltz
Some recent philosophers seem to have given their moral approval to these deplorable verdicts that affirm that the intelligence of an individual is a fixed… — Alfred Binet
To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men. — Aristotle
No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses. — Herman Melville
A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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