Philosopher Quotes

The nation which once held the creed that greatness is achieved by production, is now told that it is achieved by squalor.

So too Plato was, in my view, a very unreliable Platonist. He was too much of a philosopher to think that anything he had said was the last word.

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.

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

Put the world's greatest philosopher on a plank that is wider than need be; if there is a precipe below, although his reason may convince him that he is safe, his imagination will prevail.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

We like the fine extravagance of that philosopher who declared that no man was as rich as all men ought to be.

Most contemporary philosophers are conservative and eager to keep their jobs.

Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.

I have never come across someone who could inspire more respect than the Greek philosophers.

Some great poet or philosopher once said that " he who goes to nature for comfort must go to her empty handed " , and I think he was right.

In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.

When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.

No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.

Every child's bedroom is as important as a telescope orbiting the planet earth or a philosopher's study.

A great philosopher has stated that the worst evil of poverty is, that it makes folks ridiculous; by which, I hope, he only means that, as in the above case, it places them in incongruous positions.

What the first philosopher taught the last will have to repeat.

No sceptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot afternoon.

This sort of thing has got to be stopped. Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business.

A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher.

Socrates was a philosopher. He went around pointing out errors in the way things were done. They fed him hemlock.

I have lived as a philosopher and die as a Christian.

Only when one thinks even much more madly than the philosophers can one solve their problems.

The philosopher strives to find the liberating word, that is, the word that finally permits us to grasp what up to now has intangibly weighed down upon our consciousness.

The really royal calling of the philosopher (as expressed by Alcuin the Anglo-Saxon): To correct what is wrong, and strengthen the right, and raise what is holy.

On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.

...somehow the old philosophers could make even the most salacious topics seem boring.

I have never seen the Philosopher's Stone that turns lead into Gold, but I have known the pursuit of it turn a Man's Gold into Lead.

I loathe your ideals because I know no worse injustice than the giving of the undeserved.

Courage is the enabling virtue for any philosopher - for any human being, I think, in the end. Courage to think, courage to love, courage to hope.

I worry that we don't currently have a democracy in the United States. Instead we have what [political philosopher] Sheldon Wolin has recently labeled a sort of inverted totalitarianism.

The technology [semiconductors] which has transformed practical existence is largely an application of what was discovered by these allegedly irresponsible [natural] philosophers.

Ideal goals are a menace in themselves, as much in more modern philosophers as in Plato.

I also dreamt about finally meeting the leftist Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek. He is a great role model for me.

Do you come to a philosopher as to a cunning man, to learn something by magic or witchcraft, beyond what can be known by common prudence and discretion?

Philosophy may be dodged, eloquence cannot.

A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted.

Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it; and every philosopher supplies the logic his own undoing.

The continual pursuit of meanings-wider, clearer, more negotiable, more articulate meanings- is philosophy.

There is nothing more dangerous than a philosopher who wants to change the world

If what charms you is nothing but abstract principles, sit down and turn them over quietly in your mind: but never dub yourself a Philosopher.

By all implies marry if you get a great wife/husband, you are going to be pleased. If you get a bad a single, you are going to become a philosopher.

My instinct as a philosopher is that we are effectively approaching a multicentric world, which means we need to ask new, and for the traditional left, unpleasant questions.

Nature will not be Buddhist: she resents generalizing, and insults the philosopher in every moment with a million fresh particulars.

When you make music you are acting as a philosopher. You can either do that consciously or you can do it unconsciously, but you're doing it.