Philosophers Quotes
495 quotes by 356 authors
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Contemporary philosophers, even the rationalistic minded ones, have on the whole agreed that no one has intelligibly banished the mystery of fact.
— William James
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Philosophers are as jealous as woman; each wants a monopoly of praise.
— George Santayana
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Saints cannot arise where there have been no warriors, nor philosophers where a prying beast does not remain hidden in the depths.
— George Santayana
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Say, Not so, and you will out circle the philosophers.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Meditation is a gift confined to unknown philosophers and cows. Others don't begin to think till they begin to talk or write.
— Finley Peter Dunne
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Philosophers are in the habit of setting themselves before life and experience.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Modern civilization is largely devoted to the pursuit of the cult of delusion. There is no general information about the nature of mind. It is…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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The whole Mediterranean, the sculpture, the palm, the gold beads, the bearded heroes, the wine, the ideas, the ships, the moonlight, the winged gorgons, the…
— Lawrence Durrell
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Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers
— Arthur Helps
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Your remarks upon chemical notation with the variety of systems which have arisen, &c., &c., had almost stirred me up to regret publicly that such…
— Michael Faraday
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I have tried to read philosophers of all ages and have found many illuminating ideas but no steady progress toward deeper knowledge and understanding. Science,…
— Max Born
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To test a perfect theory with imperfect instruments did not impress the Greek philosophers as a valid way to gain knowledge.
— Isaac Asimov
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To turn Karl [Popper]'s view on its head, it is precisely the abandonment of critical discourse that marks the transition of science. Once a field…
— Thomas Kuhn
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Philosophers and theologians have yet to learn that a physical fact is as sacred as a moral principle. Our own nature demands from us this…
— Louis Agassiz
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Very few of us can now place ourselves in the mental condition in which even such philosophers as the great Descartes were involved in the…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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It can happen to but few philosophers, and but at distant intervals, to snatch a science, like Dalton, from the chaos of indefinite combination, and…
— Charles Babbage
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When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.
— Walter Lippmann
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The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of…
— Elias Canetti
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The philosophers must station themselves in the middle.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to…
— Blaise Pascal
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