Philosophers Quotes

495 Philosophers quotes by 356 unique authors

The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers. — Luc de Clapiers
Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists. — Corliss Lamont
In my opinion a mathematician, in so far as he is a mathematician, need not preoccupy himself with philosophy-an opinion, moreover, which has been expressed… — Henri Lebesgue
I profess to learn and to teach anatomy not from books but from dissections, not from the tenets of Philosophers but from the fabric of… — William Harvey
Philosophers, if they have much imagination, are apt to let it loose as well as other people, and in such cases are sometimes led to… — Unknown Author
The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful. The surest way to end them is to establish… — A.J. Ayer
On foundations we believe in the reality of mathematics, but of course, when philosophers attack us with their paradoxes, we rush to hide behind formalism… — Jean Dieudonne
The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful. — A.J. Ayer
One can defend common sense against the attacks of philosophers only by solving their puzzles, i.e., by curing them of the temptation to attack common… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Some philosophers are drawn to the subject [of philosophy] via their interest in the nature and structure of the world external to us. Others are… — Jason Stanley
Now I do not myself share that superstitious reverence for the beliefs of common sense which many contemporary philosophers profess. But I think that we… — C. D. Broad
You ask: What is it that philosophers have called qualitative states? I answer, only half in jest: As Louis Armstrong said when asked what jazz… — Unknown Author
Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within. — Edmund Husserl
Aristotle, in spite of his reputation, is full of absurdities. He says that children should be conceived in the Winter, when the wind is in… — Bertrand Russell
No matter what the cause, even though it be to conquer with tanks and planes and modern artillery some defenseless black population, there will be… — John T. Flynn
It is a logical absurdity to equate democracy with freedom in the way that mainstream political philosophers and commentators typically do. A system where individuals… — Keith Preston
Since the time of the ancient Greeks a democracy has depended on its philosophers and creative artists. It can only flourish by continuous probing, prodding,… — Uta Hagen
The natural scientists of the previous age knew less than we do and believed they were very close to the goal: we have taken very… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Man, some modern philosophers tell us, is alienated from his world: he is a stranger and afraid in a world he never made. Perhaps he… — Karl Popper
The great masses of people do not consist of philosophers; precisely for the masses, faith is often the sole foundation of a moral attitude. The… — Adolf Hitler
Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers. — John Churton Collins
A universal peace, it is to be feared, is in the catalogue of events, which will never exist but in the imaginations of visionary philosophers,… — James Madison
Often war is waged only in order to show valor; thus an inner dignity is ascribed to war itself, and even some philosophers have praised… — Immanuel Kant
As an example of just how useless these philosophers are for any practice in life there is Socrates himself, the one and only wise man,… — Desiderius Erasmus
Only when one thinks even much more madly than the philosophers can one solve their problems. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

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