Philosophers Quotes

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Philosophers are only men in armor after all. — Charles Dickens
If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers. — Frederick The Great
Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say "thus it shall be!", it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of mankind, and they… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles, and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them… — Baruch Spinoza
One man has discovered that by running there is no need to meditate, just by running meditation happens. He must be absolutely body oriented. Nobody… — Rajneesh
Now there are no priests or philosophers left, artists are the most important people in the world. — Gerhard Richter
The great paradox of determinism and free will, which has held the attention of the wisest of philosophers and psychologists for generations, can be phrased… — E. O. Wilson
Do not Christians and Heathens, Jews and Gentiles, poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences? — Walter Scott
Others of them employ outward marks ... They style themselves Gnostics. They also possess images, some of them painted and others formed from different kinds… — Irenaeus of Lyons
The technology [semiconductors] which has transformed practical existence is largely an application of what was discovered by these allegedly irresponsible [natural] philosophers. — Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers. — Luc de Clapiers
Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists. — Corliss Lamont
In my opinion a mathematician, in so far as he is a mathematician, need not preoccupy himself with philosophy-an opinion, moreover, which has been expressed… — Henri Lebesgue
I profess to learn and to teach anatomy not from books but from dissections, not from the tenets of Philosophers but from the fabric of… — William Harvey
Philosophers, if they have much imagination, are apt to let it loose as well as other people, and in such cases are sometimes led to… — Unknown Author
The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful. The surest way to end them is to establish… — A.J. Ayer
On foundations we believe in the reality of mathematics, but of course, when philosophers attack us with their paradoxes, we rush to hide behind formalism… — Jean Dieudonne
The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful. — A.J. Ayer
One can defend common sense against the attacks of philosophers only by solving their puzzles, i.e., by curing them of the temptation to attack common… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Some philosophers are drawn to the subject [of philosophy] via their interest in the nature and structure of the world external to us. Others are… — Jason Stanley

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