Philosopher Quotes

I will not die, it's the world that will end." paraphrase of unknown philosopher

For the learning of every virtue there is an appropriate discipline, and for the learning of suspended judgment the best discipline is philosophy.

Bad philosophers may have a certain influence; good philosophers, never.

Morally, a philosopher who uses his professional competence for anything except a disinterested search for truth is guilty of a kind of treachery.

I could never teach people to be philosophers - and if I did, you could never make a gardener out of them.

The philosopher says think your way out. The sensualist says play your way out but none of it works.

Philosophers.-We are full of things which take us out of ourselves.

Science fiction has a way of letting you talk about where we are in the world and letting you be a bit of a pop philosopher without being didactic.

I have to say that some philosophers such as the late Bernard Williams, and I would include myself in this group, would say that tranquillity is overrated as the goal of life.

Philosophers are only men in armor after all.

Aristotle wore many rings and expensive clothes. ... Plato found this off-putting and unsuited for a philosopher.

A philosopher's a lover of wisdom.

Philosophers are smart, analytical, and skeptical. For these reasons they are relatively unbiased.

Philosophers are often actively disinterested in what happens between the cup and the lips (after all, that's "non-ideal theory").

The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment.

Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known. This was the sound conclusion of the Academic sceptics, who were the least surly of philosophers.

You beat the liver out of a goose to get a pâté; you pound the muscles of a man's cardia to get a philosopher.

In our corrupted state, common weaknesses and defects contribute more towards the reconciling us to one another than all the precepts of the philosophers and divines.

A good philosopher is one who does not take ideas seriously.

He who esteems trifles for themselves is a trifler; he who esteems them for the conclusions to be drawn from them, or the advantage to which they can be put, is a philosopher.

Philosophers of biology generally recognize that evolutionary fitness (roughly, an organism's ability to survive and reproduce in its environment) is multiply realizable.

What a pity that 'nothingness' has been devalued by an abuse of it made by philosophers unworthy of it!

Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.

What is it to be a philosopher? Is it not to be prepared against events?

The words of that philosopher who offers no therapy for human suffering are empty and vain.

Jean-Paul Sartre, the existentialist philosopher who celebrated the anguish of decision as a hallmark of responsibility, has no place in Silicon Valley.

I was a poet animated by philosophy, not a philosopher with poetic faculties.

We need fewer philosophies and more philosophers.

The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.

Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers.

I'm not a philosopher. I am the next thing to a jock, which is a novelist.

Schiller is an important philosopher because he shows just how integral the idea of beauty is in normal life.

What the philosopher is seeking is not truth, but rather the metamorphosis of the world into man.

What does a philosopher demand of himself, first and last? To overcome his time in himself, to become "timeless.

The philosopher caught in the nets of language.

A married philosopher is a comic character.

What I understand by "philosopher": a terrible explosive in the presence of which everything is in danger.

Philosophers are in the habit of setting themselves before life and experience.

A married philosopher belongs to comedy.

What verse is for the poet, dialectical thinking is for the philosopher. He grasps for it in order to get hold of his own enchantment, in order to perpetuate it.

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

The philosopher is Nature's pilot.

Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and a great one.

One philosopher has rightly said that property is theft. But I'd like to use my future ownership of property to give something back.

It is not meant that the artist, in arriving at truth, must follow the way of the scientist, or, in stating it, the way of the philosopher.

Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.

At best, the true philosopher can fulfil his mission very imperfectly, which is to pilot himself, or at most a few voluntary companions who may find themselves in the same boat.

Every remedy is a desperate remedy. Every cure is a miraculous cure. Curing a madman is not arguing with a philosopher; it is casting out a devil.

There is no record in human history of a happy philosopher: they exist only in romantic legend.

Nietzsche ... has caused [philosophers] so much confusion.