Because Quote by George Savile

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

— Wallace Stevens

The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

When the philosophers despised riches, it was because they had a mind to vindicate their own merit, and take revenge upon the injustice of…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I've always argued that it is just as desirable, just as possible, to have philosopher plumbers as philosopher kings.

— Edith Green

Sometimes I say philosophers should be at the table because they're the only people who know that they're not going to walk away with…

— Dale Jamieson

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

The great philosophers of the past who wrote so beautifully - Rousseau, John Stuart Mill - had to write beautifully because they had to…

— Martha C. Nussbaum

...somehow the old philosophers could make even the most salacious topics seem boring.

— Brandon Sanderson

The French have never produced a great philosopher. Great wine maybe, but no great philosophers.

— Michael O'Leary

Everything that is popular, it has been said, deserves the attention of philosophers: and this is for the obvious reason, that although it may…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's very important to remember that the philosophers were social dissidents. They were social critics. The man in the street or woman in the…

— Rebecca Goldstein

Rightfully given near-deity status in the early days of industrial America, the J.P. Morgans, Rockefellers, Carnegies, and Vanderbilts of the world not only ran…

— Judy Smith