Buddhism Quote by Frederick Lenz

Philosophers are people who do violence, but have no army at their disposal, and so subjugate the world by locking it into a system.

— Robert Musil

These are fashionable people who call themselves philosophers.

— Noam Chomsky

Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.

— Denis Diderot

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

— Alfred North Whitehead

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

— Wallace Stevens

Philosophers get attention only when they appear to be doing something sinister--corrupting the youth, undermining the foundations of civilization, sneering at all we hold…

— Anonymous

I think a lot of philosophers get so absorbed and distracted from the real matters of the world that they get lost in irrelevant…

— Pam Gems

The philosophers must station themselves in the middle.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Philosophers are smart, analytical, and skeptical. For these reasons they are relatively unbiased.

— Dale Jamieson

This sort of thing has got to be stopped. Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted.

— Alan Watts

The purpose of philosophers is to show people what is right under their noses.

— Eric Hoffer