Philosophers Quotes

495 Philosophers quotes by 356 unique authors

When we walk, we naturally go to the fields and woods: what would become of us, if we walked only in a garden or a… — Henry David Thoreau
No book can teach you about yourself, no psychologist, none of the professors or philosophers. What they can teach you is what they think you… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Theologians and philosophers, who make God the creator of Nature and the architect of the Universe, reveal Him to us as an illogical and unbalanced… — Anatole France
Some philosophers fail to distinguish propositions from judgements; ... But in the real world it is more important that a proposition be interesting than that… — Alfred North Whitehead
Linguistic philosophers continue to argue that probably music is not a language, that is in the philosophical debate. Another point of view is to say… — Robert Fripp
You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of… — Catherine the Great
The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In… — Graham Greene
The great Jewish scientists and philosophers of the last few generations - Spinoza, Einstein, Freud, Robert Oppenheimer and others - were natives of Europe and… — David Ben-Gurion
Scientists disagree among themselves but they never fight over their disagreements. They argue about evidence or go out and seek new evidence. Much the same… — Richard Dawkins
Scientists search for truth. Philosophers search for morality. A criminal trial searches for only one result: proof beyond a reasonable doubt. — Alan Dershowitz
Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards. — Diogenes
When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing… — Diogenes
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers. — Denis Diderot
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers,… — Epictetus
Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it… — Desiderius Erasmus
If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and… — Stephen Hawking
Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics. — Stephen Hawking
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers. — William James
What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition! — William James
Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune. — James Weldon Johnson
Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.' — Immanuel Kant
I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate. — Jack Kevorkian
God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on… — Maimonides

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