Philosophers Quotes

495 Philosophers quotes by 356 unique authors

This principle of nature being very remote from the conceptions of Philosophers, I forbore to describe it in that book, least I should be accounted… — Isaac Newton
Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and… — Richard P. Feynman
Only philosophers embark on this perilous expedition to the outermost reaches of language and existence. Some of them fall off, but others cling on desperately… — Jostein Gaarder
This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
We are not philosophers, we are sovereigns. The rules that govern our behavior are not the rules for other men, and our honor, I think,… — Megan Whalen Turner
... the only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder... — Jostein Gaarder
As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but as long as… — Simone de Beauvoir
after all the work of the philosophers on his soul and the doctors on his body, what can we really say we know about a… — Lawrence Durrell
Philosophers play with the word, like a child with a doll.... It does not mean that everything in life is relative. — Albert Einstein
love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers. — George Santayana
This does not mean that you are warmongers. On the contrary, the soldier above all other people prays for peace, for he must suffer and… — Douglas MacArthur
That's why it's always worth having a few philosophers around the place. One minute it's all is truth beauty and is beauty truth, and does… — Terry Pratchett
The motive that impels modern reason to know must be described as the desire to conquer and dominate. For the Greek philosophers and the Fathers… — JÃ¼rgen Moltmann
Symbols and emblems were everywhere. Buildings and pictures were designed to be read like books. Everything stood for something else; if you had the right… — Philip Pullman
People can be teachers and idiots; they can be philosophers and idiots; they can be politicians and idiots... in fact I think they have to… — Iain Banks
The poets and philosophers I once loved had it wrong. Death does not come to us all, nor does the passage of time dim our… — Kevin Williamson
What you can imagine depends on what you know. Philosophers who know only philosophy consign themselves to a janitorial role in the great enterprises of… — Daniel Dennett
Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world… — Terence McKenna
Let us be dreamers, thinkers, speculative philosophers, or as our spouses would have it: Idiots — Douglas Adams
George's son had done his work so thoroughly that he was considered too good a workman to live, and was, in fact, taken and tragically… — Thomas Hardy
Philosophers can debate the meaning of life, but you need a Lord who can declare the meaning of life. — Max Lucado
Elric knew that everything that existed had its opposite. In danger he might find peace. And yet, of course, in peace there was danger. Being… — Michael Moorcock
In times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings--artists, scientists, clowns and philosophers--to create order. In times… — Tom Robbins
Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity. — Daniel Dennett
Our civilized world is nothing but a great masquerade. You encounter knights, parsons, soldiers, doctors, lawyers, priests, philosophers and a thousand more: but they are… — Arthur Schopenhauer

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