Philosophers Quotes

495 Philosophers quotes by 356 unique authors

...I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget… — William Faulkner
Philosophers have argued for centuries about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but materialists have known all along that it… — Tom Robbins
To the philosophers of India, however, Relativity is no new discovery, just as the concept of light years is no matter for astonishment to people… — Alan Watts
Comedians and jazz musicians have been more comforting and enlightening to me than preachers or politicians or philosophers or poets or painters or novelists of… — Kurt Vonnegut
They say - "they" being the great philosophers, or possibly the cast of Seinfeld - that breaking up is like pushing over a Coke machine.… — Jennifer Weiner
For particulars, as everyone knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone… — Aldous Huxley
The stone that was rolled before Christ's tomb might appropriately be called the philosopher's stone because its removal gave not only the pharisees but, now… — Soren Kierkegaard
Look at them. There are your true philosophers. I think that Mack and the boys know everything that has ever happened in the world and… — John Steinbeck
According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God had written, not… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats? — Henry David Thoreau
Fire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars. I will not forget thy word. Amen. — Blaise Pascal
Indeed, at hearing the news that 'the old god is dead', we philosophers and 'free spirits' feel illuminated by a new dawn; our heart overflows… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue. — Anne Carson
If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women. The world perhaps would laugh at me, and accuse me of… — Abigail Adams
The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. The great philosophers have always been able to clear away the complexities and… — Mortimer Adler
We should realize that, if [Socrates] demanded that the wisest men should rule, he clearly stressed that he did not mean the learned men; in… — Karl Popper
Oh, why does compassion weaken us?' It doesn't, really...Somewhere where it all balances out-don't the philosophers have a name for it, the perfect place, the… — Robin McKinley
...To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage — Plutarch
Philosophers are often like little children, who first scribble random lines on a piece of paper with their pencils, and now ask an adult 'What… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to… — Viktor E. Frankl
We rely upon the poets, the philosophers, and the playwrights to articulate what most of us can only feel, in joy or sorrow. They illuminate… — Helen Hayes
What do they know-all these scholars, all these philosophers, all the leaders of the world - about such as you? They have convinced themselves that… — Isaac Bashevis Singer
I see the beauty of Mike's attempt to devise an ideal ethic and applaud his recognition that such must start by junking the present sexual… — Robert A. Heinlein
Philosophers have often held dispute As to the seat of thought in man and brute For that the power of thought attends the latter My… — Edgar Allan Poe
here was the secret of happiness, about which philosophers had disputed for so many ages, at once discovered; happiness might now be bought for a… — Thomas de Quincey

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