Philosophers Quotes

495 Philosophers quotes by 356 unique authors

O sweet spontaneous earth how often have the doting fingers of prurient philosophers pinched and poked thee ,has the naughty thumb of science prodded thy… — E E Cummings
The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only… — Will Durant
It is my intent to beget a good understanding between the chymists and the mechanical philosophers who have hitherto been too little acquainted with one… — Robert Boyle
For they, the philosophers, were considered teachers of right living, which is far more excellent, since to speak well belongs only to a few, but… — Lactantius
Einstein, my upset stomach hates your theory [of General Relativity]—it almost hates you yourself! How am I to' provide for my students? What am I… — Paul Ehrenfest
Mathematicians have sought knowledge in figures, Philosophers in systems, Logicians in subtleties, and Metaphysicians in sounds. It is not in any nor in all of… — Charles Caleb Colton
Philosophers get attention only when they appear to be doing something sinister--corrupting the youth, undermining the foundations of civilization, sneering at all we hold dear.… — Richard Rorty
Science has so far been unable to tell us how self-aware dogs are, much less whether they have anything like our conscious thoughts. This is… — John Bradshaw
A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much… — Robert Musil
A growing and increasingly influential movement of philosophers, ethicists, law professors and activists are convinced that the great moral struggle of our time will be… — Michael Pollan
All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all male. Africa, the cradle of… — Walter Mosley
Otherwise, all I remember of the denizens of the Nocturama is that several of them had strikingly large eyes, and the fixed inquiring gaze found… — W G Sebald
It seemed to a number of philosophers of language, myself included, that we should attempt to achieve a unification of Chomsky's syntax, with the results… — John Searle
Although many philosophers used to dismiss the relevance of neuroscience on grounds that what mattered was the software, not the hardware, increasingly philosophers have come… — Patricia Churchland
Philosophers who pay for their semantics by drawing checks on Darwin are in debt way over their heads. — Jerry Fodor
To the best of my recollection, I became a philosopher because my parents wanted me to become a lawyer. It seems to me, in retrospect,… — Jerry Fodor
The World is not an idea as asserted by philosophers who have dedicated their entire lives to the exploration of ideas. First and foremost the… — Nikolai Berdyaev
Anyway, there is a lot of really interesting work going on in the neuroscience and psychology of consciousness, and I would love to see philosophers… — David Chalmers
Sleep is a state in which a great part of every life is passed. No animal has yet been discovered, whose existence is not varied… — Samuel Johnson
Scholars have long known that fishing eventually turns men into philosophers. Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to buy decent tackle on a philosopher's salary. — Patrick F. McManus
After all that corrupt poets, and more corrupt philosophers, have told us of the blandishments of pleasure, and of its tendency to soften the temper… — Hannah More
Moralists and philosophers have adjudged those who throw temptation in the way of the erring, equally guilty with those who are thereby led into evil — Mark Twain
There’s a real question as to what beauty is and why it’s important to us. Many pseudo-philosophers try to answer these questions and tell us… — Roger Scruton
Philosophers have a long tradition of marrying stupid women, from Socrates on. They think it clever. — Simon Gray
That is the first thing to learn — not to seek. When you seek you are really only window-shopping. The question of whether or not… — Jiddu Krishnamurti

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