Philosophy Quote by Roberto Bolaño

“If you need philosophy and you're waiting on the gas chamber, stick to Socrates. At least he had a sense of humor.”

— Tyler Patrick Wood

“I always thought a laughing philosopher a much wiser man than the sniveling one (cmizdrenje)”

— Lynne Withey

“Sometimes when reading Goethe I have a paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.”

— Guy Davenport

“Still, Fritz was an optimist, and Karl was a pessimist, and that makes all the difference in the world.”

— Philip Pullman

“Whatever you can do or think you can begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Goethe.”

— Nesta Tuomey

“He was a man who knew there were such things as jokes in the world or people would not write about them, but had…

— Susanna Clarke

“The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything. —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe”

— Oliver Benjamin

“No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time being a profound philosopher.”

— Anonymous

“The world is in trouble because of a few funny sympathetic philosophers”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“I am an intellectual (who makes fun of other intellectuals).”

— Muriel Barbery

“Goethe, the great nineteenth-century thinker, reportedly summed up, “You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can…

— Simon Sinek

“ He was of the opinion... that his ideas were generally misunderstood and distorted even by those who professed to be his disciples. He…

— Georg Henrik von Wright