Philosophers Quotes

495 Philosophers quotes by 356 unique authors

Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers. — Luc de Clapiers
One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers. — James Russell Lowell
Pure draughtsmen are philosophers and dialecticians. Colourists are epic poets. — Charles Baudelaire
The soul is a fire that darts its rays through all the senses; it is in this fire that existence consists; all the observations and… — Madame de Stael
Philosophers are capable of almost endless enjoyment of mutual misunderstanding. — Lyman Bryson
Philosophers say that nothing can be seen that is neither illuminated nor colored. — Leon Battista Alberti
These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to… — Jacques Derrida
I think a lot of philosophers get so absorbed and distracted from the real matters of the world that they get lost in irrelevant sub-details. — Pam Gems
By renouncing the Bible, philosophers swing from their moorings upon all moral subjects..It is the only correct map of the human heart that ever has… — Benjamin Rush
I do not need the musing of the philosophers to tell me what I am doing. It would be more interesting to let me know… — Louise Bourgeois
Philosophers and aestheticians may offer elegant and profound definitions of art and beauty, but for the painter they are all summed up in the phrase:… — Gino Severini
Some philosophers have been of opinion that our immortal part acquires during this life certain habits of action or of sentiment, which become forever indissoluble,… — Erasmus Darwin
The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose thoughts… — John Muir
Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers. — Harriet Beecher Stowe
Spending that many hours in the saddle gave a man plenty of time to think. That's why so many cowboys fancied themselves Philosophers. — Charles Marion Russell
I am sorry the infernal Divinities, who visit mankind with diseases, and are therefore at perpetual war with Doctors, should have prevented my seeing all… — Erasmus Darwin
Some are slaves of ambition or money, but others are interested in understanding life itself. These give themselves the name of philosophers , and they… — Pythagoras
When you read Boethius and some of the Renaissance philosophers, they talk a lot about the other spheres. There's a music of the spheres. There's… — Frederick Lenz
Disputes among natural philosophers are of use to science, as the quarrels of the great, and the clamors of the little, are necessary to freedom… — Hal Hellman
Like true philosophers I've come to believe that religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown after proper education. — Josh Lanyon
I would say that introverts make some of the best international philosophers. The less common attribute of the introverted lifestyle - a close societal connection,… — Criss Jami
Great philosophers become immortal - they make undeniable impacts on culture. — Criss Jami
It is the philosophers, theologians, and evangelists who are said to be filled with pride and bigotry due to the strong convictions that they represent.… — Criss Jami
Socrates ... is the first philosopher of life [Lebensphilosoph], ... Thinking serves life, while among all previous philosophers life had served thought and knowledge. ...… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Les vrais philosophes sont comme les e le phants, qui en marchant ne posent jamais le second pied a' terre que le premier ne soit… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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