Philosophers Quotes

495 Philosophers quotes by 356 unique authors

All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as… — Maimonides
However, it was the great 18th century social philosophers John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau who brought the concept of a social contract between… — Simon Mainwaring
For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd. — Josh McDowell
No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it's the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco… — Moliere
Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game. — Octavio Paz
My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries. — Steven Pinker
Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans… — Albert Pike
The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality… — Herbert Read
Women do not often fall in love with philosophers. — Samuel Richardson
It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with… — Bertrand Russell
Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much. — George Santayana
The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper… — George Santayana
Most mothers are instinctive philosophers. — Harriet Beecher Stowe
The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be. — Henry David Thoreau
God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of… — Frank Lloyd Wright
The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he… — Arthur Young
Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison. — Jonathan Swift
The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it. — Karl Marx
This sort of thing has got to be stopped. Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Scientists have power by virtue of the respect commanded by the discipline... We live with poets and politicians, preachers and philosophers. All have their ways… — Stephen Jay Gould
The student is half afraid to meet one of the great philosophers face to face. He feels himself inadequate and thinks he will not understand… — C.S. Lewis
They [intellectuals] coined most of the slogans that guided the butcheries of Bolshevism, Fascism, and Nazism. Intellectuals extolling the delights of murder, writers advocating censorship,… — Ludwig von Mises
Philosophers have long conceded, however, that every man has two educators: 'that which is given to him, and the other that which he gives himself.… — Carter G. Woodson

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