Philosophers Quotes

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Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.

Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.

Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?

I'm the best promoter in the world because I haven't taken a day off work since I left the penitentiary, and because I have read all the great philosophers like St. Thomas Aquinine.

They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.

A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.

Poets are the sense, philosophers­­ the intelligence­­ of humanity.

I read all the great philosophers but most people just hear what they want to hear and it makes it easy for them to brand us devil worshippers.

It appears that the solution of the problem of time and space is reserved to philosophers who, like Leibniz, are mathematicians, or to mathematicians who, like Einstein, are philosophers.

Great philosophers become immortal - they make undeniable impacts on culture.

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.

Good comedians are great philosophers.

The French have never produced a great philosopher. Great wine maybe, but no great philosophers.

The great philosophers are poets who believe in the reality of their poems.

As useful as an unhappy artist. As useless as a happy philosopher.

Being a philosopher requires a lot of thinking and no action. Being a model requires a lot of action and no thinking.

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

Only a philosopher would consider taking Oedipus as a model for a normal, unproblematic relation between an action and the maxim of the act.

I am not afraid to die because I know heaven is a place of artists, musicians and poets

Do a bit research before you plan.

Do not drown yourself into fantasy, whatever you can do, do it now, do not wait for tomorrow to come.

I am not an atheist. I simply believe in a god different from yours

If you are a pastor there is no way you can lose faith without losing face, you are considered the devil incarnate by your former congregation

Atheism is not against god, it is against the religious establishment who use god they have never seen or heard from to establish their influence over the minds of men.

Any idea of separation is bondage. True liberation of the mind is in non-differentiation.

With great passion, observe every details of the sacred journey.

Do not afraid of your previous mistakes, try to fix them.

Never be content with your work, your relationships, your life. That's the stupid advice philosophers give today.

My world view is somewhat unique. I have learned from many great philosophers including Plato, Socrates, Buddha, Jesus, Darwin, Tagore, Emerson, and many more.

Material wealth do not last forever, but that which probably lasts forever is the wealth of intelligence and creativity.

Keep those that influence you for the better close and never give them a reason to keep you far away.

Philosophy defines our world. I see my life in terms of great words.

At dawn of light, all darkness disappears.

I've been told by many the art of poetry's dead, I believe it's alive on pages they haven't read

Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.

The definition of a philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black hat, which isn’t really there. And the definition of a theologian is he’s somebody who finds it.

There are more things in our biology that make us one, than there are to set us apart.

I think our natural disposition as humans is to plod along until we get old and stop. But with social media, we've created a stage for constant artificial high drama.

There is no religion better than love, no color better than the color of happiness and no language better than the language of compassion.

There are poets, there are philosophers, there are spiritualists and me. I try to foot the bill of these mighty three.

Only poets and philosophers see the world as it really is, for only to them is it given to live without illusions. To see clearly is to not act.

Philosophers tell you what they think. Artists show you.

Philosophers wonder when they do not know, artists when they do.

Some of the best things that have ever happened to us wouldn’t have happened to us, if it weren’t for some of the worst things that have ever happened to us.

We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem.

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

I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

The questions philosophers ask are not so much meaningless as irrelevant.

Philosophers console themselves with explanations.

Theology is like assuming that there is a black cat in a dark room where in fact there is no black cat, and endeavoring to study the cat's properties and how it may have evolved from its ancestors.