All things Quote by Nicolaus Copernicus

The philosopher should be a man willing to listen to every suggestion,but determined to judge for himself.He should not be a respector of persons,but…

— Michael Faraday

In fact, philosophy is universal in scope. No man can live without a world view; therefore, there is no man who is not a…

— Francis Schaeffer

The philosopher ... subjects experience to his critical judgment, and this contains a value judgment namely, that freedom from toil is preferable to toil,…

— Herbert Marcuse

“I was interested in this because it bore out an opinion of mine that philosophy is an affair of character rather than of logic:…

— W. Somerset Maugham

It is not impossible to think that the minds of philosophers sometimes act like those of other mortals, and that, having once been determined…

— Morris Raphael Cohen

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

— Alan Watts

The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

A good philosopher is one who does not take ideas seriously.

— Edward Abbey

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

If you see a philosopher determining all things by means of right reason, him you shall reverence: he is a heavenly being and not…

— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

Mere unbelief in a personal God is no philosophy at all.

— Albert Einstein

We are not philosophers, we are sovereigns. The rules that govern our behavior are not the rules for other men, and our honor, I…

— Megan Whalen Turner