Idleness Quote by Henry David Thoreau

To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to…

— Henry David Thoreau

There's no greater sign of being a poor philosopher and wise man than wanting all of life to be wise and philosophical.

— Giacomo Leopardi

Philosophy is an act of living.

— Plutarch

Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions. Intellect, will, taste, and passion co-operate…

— William James

The philosopher is someone who doesn't know, but who wants to find out.

— Simon Critchley

The philosopher's conception of things will, above all, be truer than other men's, and his philosophy will subordinate all the circumstances of life. To…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

Life in the savage appears different from the life that dwells in you, different in its expression, but it is all one Life. Anyone…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.

— Seneca the Younger

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

— Alan Watts

When passions and appetites are stronger than the intellect, men are savages; when the intellect governs the passions, when the passions are servants, men…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

A philosopher's a lover of wisdom.

— Cornel West