Philosopher Quotes

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

Great novelists are philosopher novelists - that is, the contrary of thesis-writers.

To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.

The philosopher should be a man willing to listen to every suggestion,but determined to judge for himself.He should not be a respector of persons,but of things.Truth should be his primary object.

Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?

I have said my philosophy - I'm a backyard philosopher, I guess - is that the dirtiest word in the English language is "retirement."

My definition (of a philosopher) is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down.

Let us be dreamers, thinkers, speculative philosophers, or as our spouses would have it: Idiots

No philosopher's stone of a constitution can produce golden conduct from leaden instincts.

I am only a philosopher, and there is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do, and that is, to contradict other philosophers.

The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.

Philosophers say that nothing can be seen that is neither illuminated nor colored.

I want to be remembered as a poet, a peacemaker, and a philosopher who played.

I don't pretend to be an intellectual or a philosopher. I just look.

The elixir of life, the philosopher's stone is yours if you surrender sterile logic, trivial reason.

The ideal state for a philosopher, indeed, is celibacy tempered by polygamy.

Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.

Yes, it's rather funny, really, that next to no-one realized the snake that Harry set free in Philosopher's Stone turned out to be Voldemort's final Horcrux, Nagini.

The whole life of a philosopher is the meditation of his death.

All our contemporary philosophers perhaps without knowing it are looking through eyeglasses that Baruch Spinoza polished. Spinoza was a philosopher who earned his livelihood by grinding lenses.

The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.

This man has conquered the world! What have you done?" The philosopher replied without an instant's hesitation, "I have conquered the need to conquer the world.

If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants

Who lives as a citizen, may write as a philosopher - but write as a philosopher, it is to teach materialism!

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.

Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

The philosophers likewise assume that in Nature there is nothing in vain, so that everything that is not the product of human industry serves a certain purpose, which may be known or unknown to us.

I've always argued that it is just as desirable, just as possible, to have philosopher plumbers as philosopher kings.

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!

Throughout the whole of life one must continue to learn to live and what will amaze you even more, throughout life you must learn to die. Seneca (Roman philosopher)

Know that the philosopher has power over the stars, and not the stars over him.

To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher.

Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.

Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination and nothing has been the occasion of more mistakes among philosophers.

There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.

A State would be happy where philosophers were kings, or kings philosophers.

This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion.

It seems to me that philosophers should be more relaxed about whether or not some form of materialism is true.

There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.

A cleric who loses his faith abandons his calling; a philosopher who loses his redefines his subject.

In fact, philosophy is universal in scope. No man can live without a world view; therefore, there is no man who is not a philosopher.

A philosopher might find the general work unsophisticated, and scientists are often bemused by esoteric talk of zombies, supervenience, and possible worlds.

I'm not a minister, I'm not a philosopher, I'm not a politician, I'm in another category.

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

On my bad days, I sometimes wonder what philosophers are for.

To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.

'But the man who is ready to taste every form of knowledge, is glad to learn and never satisfied - he's the man who deserves to be called a philosopher, isn't he?'

We are often taught to look for the beauty in all things, so in finding it, the layman asks the philosopher while the philosopher asks the photographer.

Philosophers are capable of almost endless enjoyment of mutual misunderstanding.