Philosopher Quotes

As a philosopher, I'm not obliged to explore every unknown wilderness.

Say, Not so, and you will out circle the philosophers.

It would be no reproach to a philosopher, that he knew the future better than the past, or even than the present. It is better worth knowing.

On every hand we observe a truly wise practice, in education, in morals, and in the arts of life, the embodied wisdom of many an ancient philosopher.

There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers

The savage lives simply through ignorance and idleness or laziness, but the philosopher lives simply through wisdom.

I do realise that talk of natural kinds dates back to Aristotle, but I'd better not say too much about ancient philosophers lest I be convicted of practicing history of philosophy without a license.

The man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.

To understand a philosopher requires a philosopher.

Many modern philosophers claim that probability is relation between an hypothesis and the evidence for it.

By legend and perhaps by nature philosophers are more accustomed to the armchair than the workbench.

According to Nietzche," said a sharp new voice, making them all jump, "philosophy is the biography of the philosopher.

You're like a philosopher with tattoos.

The act of philosophizing involves the character of the philosopher.

A great philosopher in the wrong is like a beacon on the reefs which says to seamen: steer clear of me.

[W]here other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.

If Socrates died like a philosopher, Jesus Christ died like a God.

He thinks like a philosopher, but governs like a king.

I like both slapstick and contradiction. Like philosophers.

Decades ago, Gerhard Richter found a painterly philosopher's stone. Like Jackson Pollock before him, he discovered something that had been in painting all along, always overlooked or discounted.

One of the reasons why architects are often attracted to philosophers, partially, has to do with making sense of the world around us as well as the making of worlds.

"When we do not know what harbor we are making for," the Roman philosopher Seneca wrote, "no wind is the right wind." Persons have vision only when they have a dream that drives them on.

When we meet with better fare than was expected, the disappointment is overlooked even by the unscrupulous. When we meet with worse than was expected, philosophers alone know how to make it better.

The philosophers must station themselves in the middle.

What must the English and French think of the language of our philosophers when we Germans do not understand it ourselves?

Dostoevsky is such a bad writer it is hard to take him seriously as a novelist, though he is a wonderful philosopher.

Philosophy recovers itself when it ceases to be a device for dealing with the problems of philosophers and becomes a method, cultivated by philosophers, for dealing with the problems of men.

What is reality? Is it not merely a term for the philosopher to conjure with, behind which he may craftily conceal his ignorance?

Bill Russell, a famous philosopher from Boston Celtics once "When things go bad, things go bad." The [Iraq] war was terribly mismanaged-it was terribly mismanaged.

The philosopher Elaine Scarry has observed that "beauty always takes place in the particular." Cruelty, on the other hand, prefers abstraction.

I don't really know what that job [experimental philosopher] entails.

I call myself an experimental philosopher which is as ambiguous a term as comprehensive anticipatory design scientist.

The highest philosophers, in explaining the mystery of this world, are obliged to call in the aid of another.

Since at least the Middle Ages, philosophers and philologists have dreamed of curing natural languages of their flaws by constructing entirely new idioms according to orderly, logical principles.

If your divines are not philosophers, your philosophy will neither be divine, nor able to divine.

One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world.

One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.

Man's greatest battle is being a true philosopher.

I - a philosopher - live in the cage of flesh and blood.

I'm the only man; I'm the only philosopher.

I'm a slumdog philosopher.

Whenever God looks devilish, I see the philosopher fail.

Philosopher is becoming God in the process called life.

God is a questioner; Man is a philosopher.

The world is solely occupied by a questioner and a philosopher.

For us scientists, on the other wing, life is not quite so simple. Because we learn the unknown. Unlike, hah-hah, our esteemed friends the philosophers, who learn the unknowable.

Philosophy has a fine saying for everything.-For Death it has an entire set.

The British philosopher Bertrand Russell said that philosophy went downhill after Democritus and did not recover until the Renaissance.

It's only by thinking even more crazily than philosophers do that you can solve their problems.

There is not a philosophical method, though there are indeed methods, like different therapies.