Believe Quote by Umberto Eco

Philosophers are not honest enough in their work, although they make a lot of virtuous noise when the problem of truthfulness is touched even…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Antonio Machado

“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

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

“In fact, whenever I read something as complicated as Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment and think about his having written it in longhand, I am…

— Thomas B. Sawyer

“He thinks and speaks with a ruthlessness that makes no attempt to find dialectical excuses for the eternal uncertainty of humankind. Anyone who claims…

— Juli Zeh

“Bigotry consists in a man being convinced that another man must be wrong in everything, because he is wrong in a particular belief; that…

— Gilbert Keith Chesterton

“Philosophy is a high mountain road…an isolated road and becomes even more desolate the higher we ascend. Whoever pursues this pass should know no…

— Irvin D. Yalom

The true philosopher is one who makes people believe that he admires what he does not admire.

— Vikrant Parsai

There are few circumstances which so strongly distinguish the philosopher, as the calmness with which he can reply to criticisms he may think undeservedly…

— Charles Babbage

“Dostoevsky does not believe his own words, and he is trying to replace a lack of faith with "feeling" and eloquence.”

— Lev Shestov

“As a rough rule, it seems that writers fall into two camps. There are those who delight in rousting the truth from its concealment…

— Will Blythe