Life Quote by Jostein Gaarder

Socrates himself said, 'One thing only I know, and this is that I know nothing.' Remember this statement, because it is an admission that…

— Jostein Gaarder

Throughout the entire history of philosophy, philosophers have sought to discover what man is - or what human nature is. But Sartre believed that…

— Jostein Gaarder

“I no longer feel the need to see and sense more than I've already experienced. I just want so desperately to hang on what…

— Jostein Gaarder

I think that for thousands of years people have made the observation that there are certain kinds of extreme depressive states that seem to…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

“I am neither a philosopher nor a thinker, but simply follower of my own thoughts.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

— Socrates

As our domestic fowls are said to have their original in the wild pheasant of India, so our domestic thoughts have their prototypes in…

— Henry David Thoreau

And that, in a way, was the burden of being a philosopher: one knew what one had to do, but it was so often…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“Mr. Pickwick was a philosopher, but philosophers are only men in armour, after all.”

— Charles Dickens

When Eudæmonidas heard a philosopher arguing that only a wise man can be a good general, "This is a wonderful speech," said he; "but…

— Plutarch

To become a philosopher, start by walking very slowly.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Since Pawlow and his pupils have succeeded in causing the secretion of saliva in the dog by means of optic and acoustic signals, it…

— Jacques Loeb