Atheist Quote by Martha C. Nussbaum

Look at the great tradition of Western political philosophy. Those people were all immersed in revolutionary movements. Most weren't career academics - often, they…

— Martha Nussbaum

Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.

— Emile M. Cioran

Great novelists are philosopher novelists - that is, the contrary of thesis-writers.

— Albert Camus

A couple of hundred years from now, maybe [science fiction writers] Isaac Asimov and Fred Pohl will be considered the important philosophers of the…

— Marvin Minsky

For they, the philosophers, were considered teachers of right living, which is far more excellent, since to speak well belongs only to a few,…

— Lactantius

“Every great philosopher, in their own way, questioned the fundamental assumptions that were present in the thinking of their time”

— Steven West

There is no philosopher in the world so great but he believes a million things on the faith of other people and accepts a…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.

— V. S. Naipaul

Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.

— Gore Vidal

“talking about clear minds writing in clear language—the predictions of Saint Augustine, Sir Francis Bacon, Newton, Einstein, the list goes on and on, all…

— Dan Brown

A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

The great philosophers are poets who believe in the reality of their poems.

— Antonio Machado