Philosophers Quotes

495 Philosophers quotes by 356 unique authors

Not only after two or three centuries, but in a million years, life will still be as it was; life does not change, it remains… — Anton Chekhov
It's usually best not to ask philosophers anything, precisely because they have the habit of what in the Persian language is called sanud: the profitless… — Nick Harkaway
Christ alone, of all the philosophers, magicians, etc., has affirmed eternal life as the most important certainty, the infinity of time, the futility of death,… — Vincent Van Gogh
We can't define anything precisely. If we attempt to, we get into the paralysis of thought that comes to philosophers... one saying to the other:… — Richard P. Feynman
This work, though it deals only with eating and drinking, which are regarded in the eyes of our supernaturalistic mock-culture as the lowest acts, is… — Ludwig Feuerbach
The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is generally understood. Indeed,… — John Maynard Keynes
Philosophers there are who try to make themselves believe that this life is happy; but they believe it only while they are saying it, and… — Samuel Johnson
It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of… — Albert Pike
Though philosophers like to define poetry as irrational fancy, for us it is practical, humorous, reasonable way of being ourselves. — Robert Graves
Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists. — Richard P. Feynman
Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers; read, study and think a great deal of life... — Robert Henri
Today secular philosophers call that kind of divine invocation God of the gaps-which comes in handy, because there has never been a shortage of gaps… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
These 'philosophers', etc., seem unaware, to give a specific example, that by teaching and preaching 'identity', which is empirically non-existent in this actual world, they… — Alfred Korzybski
they go and set up free-will with the heathen philosophers and say that a man's free will is the cause why God chooseth and not… — William Tyndale
Scientists and philosophers tend to treat knowledge, imagination and love as if they were all very separate parts of human nature. But when it comes… — Alison Gopnik
While confronting the problems of the present, I often find myself thinking back to the world of books as it was experienced by the Founding… — Robert Darnton
The figure of Satan and the fires of hell have been demythologized by modern Christian biblical scholars, theologians and philosophers. — John Bradshaw
A single human brain has about a hundred million nerve cells... and a computer program that throws light on the mind/brain problem will have to… — Tony Hoare
Even as I pursued a doctorate in the history of ideas in my native Denmark, I realized I had neither the encyclopedic training nor the… — Anne Fortier
Do you not see what damage has been done to science through this: i.e. pedants wishing to be philosophers; to treat of natural things, and… — Giordano Bruno
In working with top leaders and thought philosophers of our time, I will tell you that among their secrets of success is a regular practice… — Jack Canfield
Identifying Israel with Jewry obscures the existence of the small but important post-Zionist movement in Israel, including the philosophers Adi Ophir and Anat Biletzki, the… — Judith Butler
Of all the named structures within the abdomen and the chest, those associated with reproduction retained the mysteries of their willful behavior long after others… — Sherwin B. Nuland
The American people want to pay attention to serious ideas again. Our founding was built by people who were political philosophers, and we need to… — Dave Brat
What we owe future generations is the subject of growing debate by economists, philosophers, ethicists, public policymakers, and academics of all stripes. But for me… — Leonor Varela

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