Army Quote by Robert Musil

“Philosophers are despots who have no armies to command, so they subject the world to their tyranny by locking it up in a system…

— Robert Musil

Philosophers are all caught up in their philosophies. That's their house of cards. Religious leaders are caught up in their religious movements to the…

— Frederick Lenz

These are fashionable people who call themselves philosophers.

— Noam Chomsky

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

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

Everyone is a philosopher. Not everyone is good at it.

— Alfred North Whitehead

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

— Alan Watts

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

— Simon Critchley

A philosopher must be more than a philosopher.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

And what is it, according to Plato, that philosophy is supposed to do? Nothing less than to render violence to our sense of ourselves…

— Rebecca Goldstein

All philosophers can do is to abstain from helping the aggressors and to enjoin social scientists to tell the truth instead of joining the…

— Mario Bunge

This sort of thing has got to be stopped. Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein