Philosophers Quotes

495 Philosophers quotes by 356 unique authors

From what deep springs of character our personal philosophies issue, we cannot be sure. In philosophers themselves we seem always able to notice some deep… — William Barrett
At first sight nothing seems more obvious than that everything has a beginning and an end, and that everything can be subdivided into smaller parts.… — Svante Arrhenius
Early morning, the orange sun is slowly rising, shining forth in empty luminous clarity. The mind and the sky are one, the sun is rising… — Ken Wilber
Is it astonishing that, like children trying to catch smoke by closing their hands, philosophers so often see the object they would grasp fly before… — Henri Bergson
The third lesson and tip actually comes from two of my favorite political philosophers: Mao Zedong and Mother Teresa â€” not often coupled with each… — Anita Dunn
Two of my favorite political philosophers, Mao Zedong and Mother Teresa - not often coupled with each together, but the two people that I turn… — Anita Dunn
I have studied the enemy all my life. I have read the memoirs of his generals and his leaders. I have even read his philosophers… — George S. Patton
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Aristotle suggests that the rotating Earth was a generally accepted tenet of Pythagorism: "While most of those who hold that the whole heaven is finite… — Aristotle
Athletes have studied how to leap and how to survive the leap some of the time and return to the ground. They don't always do… — Harold Brodkey
Those whose hearts are fixed on Reality itself deserve the title of Philosophers. — Plato
And tell him it's quite true that the best of the philosophers are of no use to their fellows; but that he should blame, not… — Plato
We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now by philosophers, can once again be made central. — Iris Murdoch
Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship. We should replace it by… — Karl Popper
Some philosophers see into themselves, and some into their times; still others forge an alliance with the future. — David Berlinski
I believe in magic ... There is magic in the creative faculty such as great poets and philosophers conspicuously possess, and equally in the creative… — Emanuel Lasker
I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's… — Karl Jaspers
A good half of the effort of understanding what the Indian philosophers were after - and their subtleties make most of the great European philosophers… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The classifications made by philosophers and psychologists are like trying to classify clouds by their shape. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Maybe I'm being a bit harsh on philosophers, but they have not been very kind to me... I have been variously called nominalist, an instrumentalist,… — Stephen Hawking

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