Alive Quote by Jean le Rond d'Alembert

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

The whole life of a philosopher is the meditation of his death.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Simon Critchley

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

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

— Anonymous

To understand a philosopher requires a philosopher.

— Horace Bushnell

“The true philosopher lives his life as a dress rehearsal for death.”

— Peter Kreeft

A philosopher must be more than a philosopher.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A philosopher's a lover of wisdom.

— Cornel West

A man becomes a philosopher by reason of a certain perplexity, from which he seeks to free himself.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Philosopher is becoming God in the process called life.

— Kedar Joshi

A philosopher is a man who can look at an empty glass with a smile.

— Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar