Quotes about philosopher
philosophers-and-philosophy
We are Uzhbi, a consortium of pygmy philosophers.
philosopher economic psychological
Allan Bloom The facile economic and psychological debunking of the theoretical life cannot do away with its irreducible beauties.
philosopher influential mystery
Alfred Korzybski It is now no mystery that some quite influential 'philosophers' were 'mentally' ill.
philosopher politician categories
Sun Ra I'm not a minister, I'm not a philosopher, I'm not a politician, I'm in another category.
philosopher boring
Ray Bradbury I don't see myself as a philosopher. That's awfully boring.
philosopher poet mist
Matthew Arnold Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
philosopher states rulers
Plato States will never be happy until rulers become philosophers or philosophers become rulers.
philosopher language habit
Nick Harkaway It's usually best not to ask philosophers anything, precisely because they have the habit of what in the Persian language is called sanud: the profitless consideration of unsettling yet inconsequential things.
philosopher scientist found
Mortimer Adler Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians.
philosopher walking
Nassim Nicholas Taleb To become a philosopher, start by walking very slowly.
philosophers-and-philosophy philosophy plato received regard
Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
philosopher danger terrible
Friedrich Nietzsche What I understand by "philosopher": a terrible explosive in the presence of which everything is in danger.
philosopher comedy married
Friedrich Nietzsche A married philosopher belongs to comedy.
philosopher wilderness obliged
Harry Frankfurt As a philosopher, I'm not obliged to explore every unknown wilderness.
philosopher scientist easier
Jacques Derrida Why is it the philosopher who is expected to be easier and not some scientist who is even more inaccessible?
philosopher modern claims
Ian Hacking Many modern philosophers claim that probability is relation between an hypothesis and the evidence for it.
philosopher celibacy states
H. L. Mencken The ideal state for a philosopher, indeed, is celibacy tempered by polygamy.
philosopher absurd said
Marcus Tullius Cicero Sed nescio quo modo nihil tam absurde dici potest quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosphorum. (There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.)
philosopher absurd said
Marcus Tullius Cicero Nothing is too absurd to be said by some of the philosophers.
philosophers-and-philosophy philosophy rather seeks solve
Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.
philosopher beacons clear
Jacques Maritain A great philosopher in the wrong is like a beacon on the reefs which says to seamen: steer clear of me.
philosopher chemicals experiments
Manly Hall Experiences are the chemicals of life with which the philosopher experiments
philosopher should take-your-time
Ludwig Wittgenstein This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time.
philosopher great-philosophers scholar
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.
philosopher middle stations
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The philosophers must station themselves in the middle.
philosopher lovers
Cornel West A philosopher's a lover of wisdom.
philosophers-and-philosophy station themselves
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The philosopher must station themselves in the middle.
philosopher certain small-gods
Terry Pratchett I could be wrong. Not being certain is what being a philosopher is all about.
philosopher sponges
Terry Pratchett Are you a philosopher? Where's your sponge?
philosopher poet aim
Ralph Waldo Emerson The true philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is the aim of both.
philosopher wonder faculty
Jostein Gaarder ... the only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder...
philosopher deals naive
Richard P. Feynman Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong.