Philosopher Quotes

With respect to the doctrine of a future life, a North American Indian knows just as much as any ancient or modern philosopher.

The philosopher is he to whom the highest has descended, and the lowest has mounted up; who is the equal and kindly brother of all.

One of the old philosophers says that it is the part of wisdom to sometimes seem a fool; but in our day there are too many ready-made ones to render this a desirable policy.

Every philosophical thinker hails it [The Origin of Species] as a veritable Whitworth gun in the armoury of liberalism.

As a philosopher, you define constraints for any good theory explaining what you are interested in, then you go out and search for help in other disciplines.

I have a general moral: great philosophers may be great, but that is not a reason to follow them. Don't be a follower. Work it out for yourself.

I'm not a philosopher.

The poets did not win; the philosophers surrendered.

Being a professional philosopher is, I would say, feeling natural to think about small and great problems. It is the only pleasure.

Without at all invalidating what we have just said, we believe that a perpetual remembrance of the tomb is proper for the living. On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.

To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time.

All the persecutors declare against each other mortal war, while the philosopher, oppressed by them all, contents himself with pitying them.

The great critic … must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things.

For other great mathematicians or philosophers, he [Gauss] used the epithets magnus, or clarus, or clarissimus; for Newton alone he kept the prefix summus.

But of all nations in the world the English are perhaps the least a nation of pure philosophers.

A true philosopher is beyond the reach of fortune.

One afternoon late in October of the year 1697, Euclide Auclair, the philosopher apothecary of Quebec, stood on the top of Cap Diamant gazing down the broad, empty river far beneath him.

Philosophy abounds more than philosophers, and learning more than learned men.

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.

Abraham Lincoln was not philosopher, exactly. But he did have a strong mind, which sought generalizations as well as particulars. He had a terrific memory.

The unambitious sluggard pretends that the eminence is not worth attaining, declines altogether the struggle, and calls himself a philosopher. I say he is a poor-spirited coward.

The Country is both the Philosopher's Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God.

Thou best philosopher, who yet dost keep/ Thy heritage, thou eye among the blind.

Children are the only brave philosophers. And brave philosophers are, inevitably, children.

In the end, only the truth will survive.

It is the destiny of things real to destroy those that are artifice.

To lovers there.Most ladies the reason they are dumped and their relationship doesn't last is they made themselves to become a want than a need in a relationship.

Taking him for all and all, I think it will be conceded that Michael Faraday was the greatest experimental philosopher the world has ever seen.

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.

My ship came in, then it sank!

Never justify someones wrong action, without them apologizing first & admitting their wrongs. If you do. You are not making them better, but you are making them worse on the bad things they do.

If you have influence on other people. Dont be influenced by their hate, money, jealousy, anger and popularity .

I dont celebrate any friendship that was build on hate, because we share the common enemy.

When people support you when you have done something wrong. It doesnt mean you are right, but it means those people are promoting their hate, bad behavior or living their bad lives through you.

To some believers, being on the pill or using a condom is a nonverbal way of telling God to go to hell.

As a species, wise, harmonious progress is our mission.

Belief is a wonderful way to pass the time until the facts come in.

Three things have a limited threshold:Time, pain, and death.While truth, love, and knowledge –Are boundless.

You can control the visibility of my name and my popularity, but you cannot control the frequency at which people are quoting me. Truth always rises with time.

Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said.

Hunger is a lesser evil than ignorance.

If you want to make people angry. Be Happy. It's sad that people cant stand when others are happy inlife. It really says a lot about them.

For a sane person to sincerely be happy that someone has succeeded, they have to either be profiting or likely to profit from that person’s success, or be that person.

Not a few millions of parents strongly hope that their own children will step in by instantly becoming their own parents’ foster parents, if and when the parents reach their second childhood.

Producers problems is in need of vocalist and Vocalist problems is in need of a Studio.

Most sane human beings who are over the age of six usually act or react not as per what they genuinely feel or really think but in accordance with the expectations of those around them.

Your looks will introduce you, but your character and personality will make them to like you, love you and they would want to keep you.

Some of us were brought into this troubled world primarily or only to increase our fathers’ chances of not being left by our mothers, or vice versa.

Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.

Just like how most if not all poor boys look up to and aspire to someday be rich men, most if not all underdeveloped and developing countries look up to and aspire to someday be developed countries.