To Be A Philosopher Quotes
To philosopher and historian the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.
A man may be the greatest philosopher in the world but a child in RELIGION. When a man has developed a high state of spirituality he can understand that the kingdom of heaven is within him.
According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat
Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher
In order to be a really good investor, you need to be a little bit of a philosopher as well.
The late philosopher Morris R. Cohen of CCNY was asked by a student in the metaphysics course, Professor Cohen, how do I know that I exist? The keen old prof replied, And who is asking?
To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher.
Perhaps no philosopher is more correct than the cynic. The happiness of the animal, that thorough cynic, is the living proof of cynicism.
The philosopher's soul dwells in his head, the poet's soul is in his heart; the singer's soul lingers about his throat, but the soul of the dancer abides in all her body.
Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.
This sense of wonder is the mark of the philosopher. Philosophy indeed has no other origin.
Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.
In fact, of course, I hold that propositions that contemporary philosophers would properly count as 'empirical' can be necessary and be known to be such.
Just as it is agreed that we all wish to be happy, so it is that we all wish to be wise, since no one without wisdom is happy.
I am fascinated by Spinoza's pantheism, but admire even more his contributions to modern thought because he is the first philosopher to deal with the soul and the body as one, not two separate things
The feelings of our heart, the agitation of our passions, the vehemence of our affections, dissipate all its conclusions, and reduce the profound philosopher to a mere plebeian
To the natural philosopher, there is no natural object unimportant or trifling. From the least of Nature's works he may learn the greatest lessons.
When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.
Philosophers and common heathen believed one God, to whom all things were referred; but under this God they worshipped many inferior and subservient gods.
Philosophy always requires something more, requires the eternal, the true, in contrast to which even the fullest existence as such is but a happy moment.
The philosopher says that God's knowledge is the measure of things, and that things are the measure of man's knowledge.
To be a philosopher... is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.
A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.
Being a physicist, not a philosopher, I have devised an entirely new theory of consciousness, allowing one to numerically calculate the level of consciounsess of humans and even animals.
There's no greater sign of being a poor philosopher and wise man than wanting all of life to be wise and philosophical.
Watching a woman make Russian pancakes, you might think that she was calling on the spirits or extracting from the batter the philosopher's stone.
The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher.
The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones.
No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.
Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum -- "I think that I think, therefore I think that I am;" as close an approach to certainty as any philosopher has yet made.
It is as absurd to expect members of philosophy departments to be philosophers as it is to expect members of art departments to be artists.
No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
You can argue with a philosopher, but you can’t argue with a good song. And I think I’ve got a few good songs.
For they, the philosophers, were considered teachers of right living, which is far more excellent, since to speak well belongs only to a few, but to live well belongs to all.