Ambition Quote by Pythagoras

These are fashionable people who call themselves philosophers.

— Noam Chomsky

The philosophers talk to you about the dignity of man, and they tempt you to pride, or they talk to you about the misery…

— Blaise Pascal

Some philosophers are drawn to the subject [of philosophy] via their interest in the nature and structure of the world external to us. Others…

— Jason Stanley

Philosophers are in the habit of setting themselves before life and experience.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What you can imagine depends on what you know. Philosophers who know only philosophy consign themselves to a janitorial role in the great enterprises…

— Anonymous

It is the duty of all who make philosophy the entertainment of their lives, to turn their thoughts to practical schemes for the good…

— Joseph Addison

Philosophers.-We are full of things which take us out of ourselves.

— Blaise Pascal

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

Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say "thus it shall be!", it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of mankind, and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosophers (and probably most intellectuals) are more interested in pursuing what they see as the logical implications of their theories than they are in…

— Dale Jamieson

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

— Simon Critchley

On my bad days, I sometimes wonder what philosophers are for.

— Jerry Fodor