Facts Quote by Francis Schaeffer

Only as an individual can man become a philosopher.

— Karl Jaspers

A philosopher must be more than a philosopher.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

To understand a philosopher requires a philosopher.

— Horace Bushnell

Philosophy is man’s expression of curiosity about everything and his attempt to make sense of the world primarily through his intellect.

— Alan Watts

The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the…

— Nicolaus Copernicus

One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Men are not philosophers, but are rather very foolish children, who, by reason of their partiality, see everything in the most absurd manner, and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no philosopher in the world so great but he believes a million things on the faith of other people and accepts a…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Everyone is a philosopher. Not everyone is good at it.

— Alfred North Whitehead

My definition (of a philosopher) is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him…

— Louisa May Alcott

Philosophy is the thoughts of men about human thinking, reasoning and imagining, and the real values in human existence.

— Charles William Eliot