Philosophers Quotes
495 quotes by 361 authors
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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
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
— Abigail Adams
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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
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
— Samuel Beckett
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Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.
— Isaiah Berlin
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Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians.
— Mortimer Adler
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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 than reason. Reason…
— Edward de Bono
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It's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.
— Edward de Bono
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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
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Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.
— Emile M. Cioran
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.
— Aristotle
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
— Herman Melville
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A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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