Alliances Quote by David Berlinski

Philosophers are in the habit of setting themselves before life and experience.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is not impossible to think that the minds of philosophers sometimes act like those of other mortals, and that, having once been determined…

— Morris Raphael Cohen

These are fashionable people who call themselves philosophers.

— Noam Chomsky

Philosophers are all caught up in their philosophies. That's their house of cards. Religious leaders are caught up in their religious movements to the…

— Frederick Lenz

Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly…

— Bertrand Russell

Some are slaves of ambition or money, but others are interested in understanding life itself. These give themselves the name of philosophers , and…

— Pythagoras

Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.

— Wallace Stevens

“Their [philosophers] thinking is, in fact, far less a discovery than a re-recognizing, a remembering, a return and a home-coming to a far-off, ancient…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There are very few original thinkers in the world; the greatest part of those who are called philosophers have adopted the opinions of some…

— Dugald Stewert

The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm…

— Elias Canetti

Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say "thus it shall be!", it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of mankind, and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Every great philosopher, in their own way, questioned the fundamental assumptions that were present in the thinking of their time”

— Steven West