Academic Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

What I understand by "philosopher": a terrible explosive in the presence of which everything is in danger.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A philosopher ... is not fairly judged by his eccentricities, nor by the frailties to which he is liable; still less should his philosophy…

— John Grier Hibben

To understand a philosopher requires a philosopher.

— Horace Bushnell

A philosopher is a fool who torments himself while he is alive, to be talked of after he is dead.

— Jean le Rond d'Alembert

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

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

A philosopher must be more than a philosopher.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones.

— Anonymous

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

A philosopher's a lover of wisdom.

— Cornel West

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

— Alan Watts

It is the man of science, eager to have his every opinion regenerated, his every idea rationalized, by drinking at the fountain of fact,…

— Anonymous