Philosophers Quotes

495 Philosophers quotes by 356 unique authors

Many talk like philosophers and live like fools — Russyb
Consequently, after the fall of Greece, the pursuit of education philosophy and science almost ceased to exist. Humanity suddenly shunned the wonderful writings bequeathed to… — Johnny Luckett
Philosophers say those lost at sea ascended a more perfect realm. Sailors say they drowned. — Magic! The Gathering
As I say, there was this movement to try to bring philosophers and mathematicians together into an organization where they would talk to each other.… — Stephen Cole Kleene
Philosophers have argued for centuries about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but materialists have always known it depends on… — Tom Robbins
The difference between moral dilemmas and ethical ones, philosophers say, is that in moral issues the choice is between right and wrong. In ethics, the… — Unknown Author
So philosophers so throughly comprehend us as horses. — Herman Melville
It is now no mystery that some quite influential philosophers were mentally ill. — Alfred Korzybski
A few philosophers really do important work. This applies to the so called critical philosophy and to the theory of knowledge or epistemology. This class… — Alfred Korzybski
The ancient Greek philosophers were all natural-born dialecticians and Aristotle, the most encyclopaedic intellect among them, had even already analysed the most essential forms of… — Friedrich Engels
Where is Philosophy sleeping this saturday afternoon? Are the philosophers already dead? Are the poets gone from the planet? I look through the window and… — Mariana Fulger
There are very few original thinkers in the world; the greatest part of those who are called philosophers have adopted the opinions of some who… — Unknown Author
Mothers are instinctive philosophers. — Harriet Beecher Stowe
All that philosophers have done is interpret the world in different ways. It is our job to change it. — Karl Marx
We become instant philosophers , when masking miseries while projecting optimism. — Toothangel15
Wherefore a man can know nothing by himself, save after a natural manner, which is only that which he attains by means of the senses.… — St John Of The Cross
Helmholtz is not a philosopher in the exclusive sense, as Kant, Hegel, Mansel are philosophers, but one who prosecutes physics and physiology, and acquires therein… — James Clerk Maxwell
Esse est percipi, to be is to be perceived, said good old Berkeley; but, according to most philosophers, he was wrong. Yet, obviously, there are… — Unknown Author
In the beginning the Poets and Philosophers taught the world to see. Then after that any form of education was no longer free. — Stanley Victor Paskavich
Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all other philosophers are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also… — Henry Louis Mencken

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