Danger Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

How I understand the philosopher - as a terrible explosive, endangering everthing... my concept of the philosopher is worlds removed from any concept that…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There is nothing more dangerous than a philosopher who wants to change the world

— Piero Scaruffi

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

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

What is it to be a philosopher? Is it not to be prepared against events?

— Epictetus

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

It's a fact that people who are in a weakened position, whether physically or mentally, have this perception of the outer world as threatening.…

— Michael Haneke

Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.

— Anonymous

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

But also philosophy is not about perceptible substances they, you see, are prone to destruction.

— Aristotle

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

— Anonymous

Philosophers talk about truth and falsehood. People in life talk about payoff, exposure, and consequences (risks and rewards), hence fragility and antifragility. And sometimes…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb