Philosophers Quotes

495 Philosophers quotes by 356 unique authors

Al-Ghazali is the most important philosophical theologian of classical Islam, and Moderation in Belief is among his most important works. It sets out al-Ghazali's Ash?arite… — Peter Adamson
I've argued that many of what philosophers call moral sentiments can be seen in other species. In chimpanzees and other animals, you see examples of… — Frans de Waal
And we daily in our experiments electrise bodies plus or minus, as we think proper. [These terms we may use till your Philosophers give us… — Benjamin Franklin
Even if a king defeats his enemy in battle, that still doesn't settle anything. There are other, less numerous armies of philosophers and scientists, and… — Cyrano de Bergerac
I think philosophers can do things akin to theoretical scientists, in that, having read about empirical data, they too can think of what hypotheses and… — Robert Nozick
The scientists often have more unfettered imaginations than current philosophers do. Relativity theory came as a complete surprise to philosophers, and so did quantum mechanics,… — Robert Nozick
I also realized that the philosophers, far from ridding me of my vain doubts, only multiplied the doubts that tormented me and failed to remove… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
In our corrupted state, common weaknesses and defects contribute more towards the reconciling us to one another than all the precepts of the philosophers and… — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence. — Elie Wiesel
When I first collected these authorities, I was desirous that every quotation should be useful to some other end than the illustration of a word;… — Samuel Johnson
Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they… — Bertrand Russell
Philosophers have often looked for the defining feature of humans — language, rationality, culture, and so on. I'd stick with this: Man is the only… — Paul Bloom
Worship is to feel in your heart and express in some appropriate manner a humbling but delightful sense of admiring awe and astonished wonder and… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora's box did those of the body; only… — Jonathan Swift
Philosophers are people who do violence, but have no army at their disposal, and so subjugate the world by locking it into a system. — Robert Musil
Greek philosophers considered sport a religious and civic-in a word, moral-undertaking. Sport, they said, is morally serious because mankind's noblest aim is the loving contemplation… — George Will
Long before Einstein told us that matter is energy, Machiavelli and Hobbes and other modern political philosophers defined man as a lump of matter whose… — George Will
It is right to prefer our own country to all others, because we are children and citizens before we can be travellers or philosophers. — George Santayana
Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them. — Wallace Stevens
There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fontenelle says he would undertake to persuade… — Oliver Goldsmith
Few parents are aware of the difficulties that beset the minds of the little philosophers and theologians who sit upon their knees or play at… — Lucy Larcom
Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Philosophers.-We are full of things which take us out of ourselves. — Blaise Pascal
The great philosophers are poets who believe in the reality of their poems. — Antonio Machado

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