Philosophers Quotes

495 Philosophers quotes by 356 unique authors

Women make us poets, children make us philosophers. — Malcolm De Chazal
Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make. — Gaston Bachelard
Novelists don't age as quickly as philosophers, who often face professional senility in their late twenties. — Martin Amis
The greatest horrors in the history of mankind are not due to the ambition of the Napoleons or the vengeance of the Agamemnons, but to… — Aleister Crowley
The Quest of the Holy Grail, the Search for the Stone of the Philosophers - by whatever name we choose to call the Great Work… — Aleister Crowley
Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven knowledge. — Imre Lakatos
Philosophers are all caught up in their philosophies. That's their house of cards. Religious leaders are caught up in their religious movements to the point… — Frederick Lenz
The world's philosophers and theologians searched for answers to the same mysteries. — Robert Vaughn
How something important happens is the business of historians and newspapers, the effect it has is the business of philosophers and writers and especially poets. — Karl Shapiro
Why are philosophers intent on forcing others to believe things? Is that a nice way to behave towards someone? — Robert Nozick
Find the god in your own heart and you will understand by direct intuition what all the great teachers, real mystics, true philosophers and inspired… — Paul Brunton
Suppose cats became philosophers, they would see a cat universe and have a cat solution of the problem of the universe, and a cat ruling… — Swami Vivekananda
Those who have the largest hearts have the soundest understandings; and they are the truest philosophers who can forget themselves. — William Hazlitt
The great masses of people do not consist of philosophers; precisely for the masses, [religious] faith is often the sole foundation of a moral attitude...… — Adolf Hitler
The method of exposition which philosophers have adopted leads many to suppose that they are simply inquiries, that they have no interest in the conclusions… — Morris Raphael Cohen
It is not impossible to think that the minds of philosophers sometimes act like those of other mortals, and that, having once been determined by… — Morris Raphael Cohen
Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers. — Frederic Farrar
The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of… — Karl Jaspers
The greatest artists, saints, philosophers, and, until quite recent times, scientists... have all assumed that the New Testament promise of eternal life is valid.... I'd… — Malcolm Muggeridge
Lofty questions about the mind are fascinating to ask, philosophers have been asking them for three millennia both in India where I am from and… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
As Enlightenment philosophers and scholars consciously adopted the methods of science to establish such abstract concepts as rights, liberty, and justice, successive generations have become… — Michael Shermer
Plato, by the way, wanted to banish all poets from his proposed Utopia because they were liars. The truth was that Plato knew philosophers couldn't… — Kurt Vonnegut
The failure of the past philosophers is largely the failure to see the self-evident. — Kedar Joshi
There's no precedent for women philosophers and there's no precedence for most of the things I did. — Agnes Denes
Philosophers are never happy here. Now is not their time, and here is not their space. They live there, they live somewhere else. — Rajneesh

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