Philosophers Quotes

495 Philosophers quotes by 356 unique authors

Those whose hearts are fixed on Reality itself deserve the title of Philosophers. — Plato
And tell him it's quite true that the best of the philosophers are of no use to their fellows; but that he should blame, not… — Plato
We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now by philosophers, can once again be made central. — Iris Murdoch
Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship. We should replace it by… — Karl Popper
Some philosophers see into themselves, and some into their times; still others forge an alliance with the future. — David Berlinski
I believe in magic ... There is magic in the creative faculty such as great poets and philosophers conspicuously possess, and equally in the creative… — Emanuel Lasker
I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's… — Karl Jaspers
A good half of the effort of understanding what the Indian philosophers were after - and their subtleties make most of the great European philosophers… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The classifications made by philosophers and psychologists are like trying to classify clouds by their shape. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Maybe I'm being a bit harsh on philosophers, but they have not been very kind to me... I have been variously called nominalist, an instrumentalist,… — Stephen Hawking
The Prayer of Examine produces within us the priceless grace of self-knowledge. I wish I could adequately explain to you how great a grace this… — Richard J. Foster
Theoretical scientists who probe the secrets of the universe and philosophers who seek answers to existence, as well as painters such as Paul Klee who… — Wynn Bullock
An army of philosophers would not be sufficient to change the nature of error and to make it truth. — Averroes
Different Chinese philosophers, writing probably in 5-4 centuries B.C., presented some major ideas and a way of life that are nowadays known under the name… — Alan Watts
Future generations may or may not judge Wittgenstein to be one of the great philosophers. Even if they do not, however, he is sure always… — A.C. Grayling
Shouldn't I join the ranks of philosophers and merely make unsubstantiated claims about the wonders of human consciousness? Shouldn't I stop trying to do some… — Kevin Warwick
I feel that we are all philosophers, and that those who describe themselves as a 'philosopher' simply do not have a day job to go… — Kevin Warwick
I persist in preferring philosophers to rabbis priests imams ayatollahs and mullahs. Rather than trust their theological hocus-pocus I prefer to draw on alternatives to… — Michel Onfray
All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain. — Anthony Burgess
Many scientists think that philosophy has no place, so for me it's a sad time because the role of reflection, contemplation, meditation, self inquiry, insight,… — Deepak Chopra
Wherefore all theology, when separated from Christ, is not only vain and confused, but is also mad, deceitful, and spurious; for, though the philosophers sometimes… — John Calvin
All our contemporary philosophers perhaps without knowing it are looking through eyeglasses that Baruch Spinoza polished. Spinoza was a philosopher who earned his livelihood by… — Heinrich Heine
For other great mathematicians or philosophers, he [Gauss] used the epithets magnus, or clarus, or clarissimus; for Newton alone he kept the prefix summus. — W. W. Rouse Ball
Historically the most striking result of Kant's labors was the rapid separation of the thinkers of his own nation and, though less completely, of the… — Lawrence Joseph Henderson
In England, philosophers are honoured, respected; they rise to public offices, they are buried with the kings... In France warrants are issued against them, they… — John Dewey

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