Philosopher Quotes

There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.

Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.

If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.

An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher.

Philosophy is nothing but discretion.

Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers.

I consider myself a 3-D philosopher. I am not a designer at all. I studied aerodynamics, I studied philosophy, I studied sculpture. High technology on one side, and on the other side, art.

That great philosopher anonymous once said, never argue with a fool. People might not know the difference.

A thirsty ambition for truth and virtue, and a frenzy to conquer all lies and vices which are not recognized as such nor desire to be; herein consists the heroic spirit of the philosopher.

It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.

The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the abyss looks into you. Probably no other line or thought more inspires or informs my work.

A philosopher being asked what was the first thing necessary to win the love of a woman, answered, Opportunity!

We should listen to both philosophers and scientists, because the philosophical contribution is different from the scientific contribution, and both of them are worthwhile.

There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.

The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is still a greater, which is the good man who comes to relieve it.

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.

Plato used to say to Xenocrates the philosopher, who was rough and morose, "Good Xenocrates, sacrifice to the Graces.

And tell him it's quite true that the best of the philosophers are of no use to their fellows; but that he should blame, not the philosophers, but those who fail to make use of them.

It is fear and terror that make all men brave, except the philosophers. Yet it is illogical to be brave through fear and cowardice.

Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than this.

It is good to renew one's wonder, said the philosopher. Space travel has again made children of us all.

It brings joy in sorrow, victory in battle, light to darkness, life to the dead. That is the power of the blood-red jewel which men honor with the name "The Philosopher's Stone.

Philosophers ought to aspire to know lots of different things and to forge useful synthetic perspectives.

The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic.

I mean it as a compliment when I say that you could almost define a philosopher as someone who won't take common sense for an answer.

The proof that a philosopher does not know what he is talking about is apt to sadden his followers before it reacts on himself.

God, of course, is the greatest philosopher of all.

Like the philosopher, the author views his task as one of establishing a clear connection between life and history, and of making the past bear fruit for the present and future.

In my view, only those who have had the courage to work through Lacan's anti-philosophy without faltering deserve to be called 'contemporary philosophers'.

Since ancient times, philosophers have maintained that to strive too hard for one's own happiness is self-defeating.

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.

Well, I don’t know if I can comment on Kant or Hegel because I’m no real philosopher in the sense of knowing what these people have said in any detail so let me not comment on that too much.

Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven knowledge.

The true cook is the perfect blend, the only perfect blend, of artist and philosopher. He knows his worth: he holds in his palm the happiness of mankind, the welfare of generations yet unborn.

The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.

The philosopher who would fain extinguish his passions resembles the chemist who would like to let his furnace go out.

Was it not the great philosopher and mathematician Leibnitz who said that the more knowledge advances the more it becomes possible to condense it into little books?

REALITY, n. The dream of a mad philosopher. That which would remain in the cupel if one should assay a phantom. The nucleus of a vacuum.

Bertrand Russell started off as a mathematician and then degenerated into a philosopher and finally into a humanist; he went downhill rapidly!

An old philosopher said to Monsieur Coignard, a Reverend Father: 'You are a pig!' To which Abad Coignard answered: 'You flatter me, sir. But unfortunately, I'm only a man.'

These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to moderate.

[Benjamin] Franklin may be a great philosopher, [John Adams] told his diary in 1779, but "as a Legislator in America he has done very little."

The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind.

What we philosophers can do is just correct the questions.

A German philosopher once wrote that he who fights monsters must take care that he doesn't become one himself.

An English philosopher said that whatever is cosmic is also comic. Do the best you can and don't take it so seriously.

The Democrats believe they need more of your money to spend because they can spend it better than you can. But you know, sometimes philosophers don't act.

We're philosophers. We think, therefore we am.

One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers.

Since the princes take the Earth for their own, it's fair that the philosophers reserve the sky for themselves and rule there, but they should never permit the entry of others.