Devotee Quote by John Grier Hibben

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 must be more than a philosopher.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

The true philosopher is one who makes people believe that he admires what he does not admire.

— Vikrant Parsai

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

— Alan Watts

“A philosopher is someone who promotes moral excellence, argues for moral excellence, and gets other people to behave morally and excellently based on those…

— Stefan Molyneux

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

To understand a philosopher requires a philosopher.

— Horace Bushnell

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 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

What's a philosopher?' said Brutha. Someone who's bright enough to find a job with no heavy lifting,' said a voice in his head.

— Terry Pratchett

A philosopher's a lover of wisdom.

— Cornel West