Philosophers Quotes

495 Philosophers quotes by 356 unique authors

There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers — Henry David Thoreau
It may be argued that peoples for whom philosophers legislate are always prosperous. — Aristotle
Philosophers say the Soul is double-faced, her upper face gazes at God all the time and her lower face looks somewhat down, informing the senses;… — Meister Eckhart
When we come to understand architecture as the essential nature of all harmonious structure we will see that it is the architecture of music that… — Frank Lloyd Wright
Since ancient times, the philosophers' secret has always been this: we know that God does not exist, or, at least, if he does, he's utterly… — Robert J. Sawyer
The purpose of philosophers is to show people what is right under their noses. — Eric Hoffer
The ancient Greeks, poets, authors and philosophers all puzzled over the question but nobody really knows what love is - including me. Longing for another… — Nicole Kidman
The simple record of these three short years of active life has done more to regenerate and soften mankind than all the discourses of philosophers… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky
When the mind opens by speaking denials, this true Self that philosophers have so long striven to free shows itself all glorious with wisdom, strength,… — Myrtle Fillmore
I know a lot of people who are philosophers and they sit by the river and talk about what that underwater world might look like.… — Stana Katic
A delusion that encourages belief where there is no evidence is asking for trouble. Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because… — Richard Dawkins
By examining the tongue of the patient, physicians find out the diseases of the body, and philosophers the diseases of the mind. — Justin Martyr
Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China.… — Hu Shih
To this principle of vanity, which philosophers call a mean one, and which I do not, I owe a great part of the figure which… — Lord Chesterfield
Various philosophers and religious leaders tried to convince their disciples and followers that animals are nothing more than machines without a soul, without feelings. However,… — Isaac Bashevis Singer
It has been a long time since philosophers have read men's souls. It is not their task, we are told. Perhaps. But we must not… — Emile M. Cioran
Upon the whole, I am inclined to think that the far greater part, if not all, of those difficulties which have hitherto amused philosophers, and… — George Berkeley
The surface of the Moon is not smooth, uniform, and precisely spherical as a great number of philosophers believe it to be, but is uneven,… — Galileo Galilei
Many men talk like philosophers and live like fools. — Philip K. Dick
Philosophy recovers itself when it ceases to be a device for dealing with the problems of philosophers and becomes a method, cultivated by philosophers, for… — John Dewey
The code of Manu differs from the bible. By means of it the nobles, the philosophers, and the warriors keep the whip hand over the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The history of India for many centuries had been happier, less fierce, and more dreamlike than any other history. In these favorable conditions, they built… — H.G. Wells
Whether religion is man-made is a question for philosophers or theologians. But the forms are man-made. They are a human response to something. As a… — Mircea Eliade
There may have been somewhere, as a few eighteenth-century philosophers dreamed, a group of peaceful men who got together one evening after work and drew… — Henry Hazlitt
I wish, my dear Kepler, that we could have a good laugh together at the extraordinary stupidity of the mob. What do you think of… — Galileo Galilei

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