Philosophers Quotes

495 Philosophers quotes by 356 unique authors

Indeed, the distribution of wealth is too important an issue to be left to economists, sociologists, historians, and philosophers. — Thomas Piketty
The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers. — Bryan Magee
The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing… — Vilhjalmur Stefansson
Today, it is not only that our kings do not know mathematics, but our philosophers do not know mathematics and - to go a step… — J. Robert Oppenheimer
I became a virtuoso of deceit. It wasn't pleasure I was after, it was knowledge. I consulted the strictest moralists to learn how to appear,… — Christopher Hampton
To us it seems incredible that the Greek philosophers should have scanned so deeply into right and wrong and yet never noticed the immorality of… — Brigid Brophy
Osho is one of India's greatest mystics.... I see him as one of the world's great teachers, thinkers, philosophers and guides of our times. I… — Kabir Bedi
To change man, the audience by which he judges himself must be changed. A man is defined by his audience: by the people, institutions, authors,… — Luke Rhinehart
It appears that the solution of the problem of time and space is reserved to philosophers who, like Leibniz, are mathematicians, or to mathematicians who,… — Hans Reichenbach
What great philosophers do for us is not to hand out such an all-purpose system. It is to light up and clarify some special aspect… — Mary Midgley
If true happiness depended on the thoughts of man, then all philosophers and deep thinkers would be filled to overflowing with it. — Sadhu Sundar Singh
Kings were wont to honour philosophers, but if I had such I would honour them as angels that should have such piety in them that… — Elizabeth I
The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves. — M H Abrams
In stark contrast with the views of the Greek philosophers and with those of the rest of western intellectuals to the present day, Chinese Taoist… — Unknown Author
It has generally been assumed that of two opposing systems of philosophy, e.g., realism and idealism, one only can be true and one must be… — Morris Raphael Cohen
From what deep springs of character our personal philosophies issue, we cannot be sure. In philosophers themselves we seem always able to notice some deep… — William Barrett
At first sight nothing seems more obvious than that everything has a beginning and an end, and that everything can be subdivided into smaller parts.… — Svante Arrhenius
Early morning, the orange sun is slowly rising, shining forth in empty luminous clarity. The mind and the sky are one, the sun is rising… — Ken Wilber
Is it astonishing that, like children trying to catch smoke by closing their hands, philosophers so often see the object they would grasp fly before… — Henri Bergson
The third lesson and tip actually comes from two of my favorite political philosophers: Mao Zedong and Mother Teresa — not often coupled with each… — Anita Dunn
Two of my favorite political philosophers, Mao Zedong and Mother Teresa - not often coupled with each together, but the two people that I turn… — Anita Dunn
I have studied the enemy all my life. I have read the memoirs of his generals and his leaders. I have even read his philosophers… — George S. Patton
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Aristotle suggests that the rotating Earth was a generally accepted tenet of Pythagorism: "While most of those who hold that the whole heaven is finite… — Aristotle
Athletes have studied how to leap and how to survive the leap some of the time and return to the ground. They don't always do… — Harold Brodkey

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