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You seem to be in a state of such absolute contradiction that I would not be surprised if your face tore in half.
— Mary-Jean Harris
The philosopher Isaiah Berlin sagely pointed out, liberty for wolves means death to lambs.124
— Naomi Oreskes
A thought is of a much higher value than an action.
— Harshit Walia
Philosophy is everybody's business.
— Mortimer Adler
A dog is the best philosopher because he knows what you want and gives you that with kindness and love.
— Debasish Mridha
Then she told me about a philosopher who said that observation is at its core an expression of love which doesn't get caught up in sentiment.
— Takashi Hiraide
The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
Say, Not so, and you will out circle the philosophers.
— Henry David Thoreau
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
— Evelyn Waugh
I am not a philosopher; my life is my philosophy.
— Debasish Mridha
Life is like a jigsaw puzzle; Not a "Box of chocolate" You have to put the pieces together to get the 'real' picture.
— Andrea L'Artiste
One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.
— Rene Descartes
There is not a philosophical method, though there are indeed methods, like different therapies.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
Confirmations, corroborations rather than disillusionment. At eighteen I was as much of a philosopher as I ever will be.
— Henry Miller
You cannot grow if you are not Thinking
— Andrea L'Artiste
To understand a philosopher requires a philosopher.
— Horace Bushnell
The philosopher is he to whom the highest has descended, and the lowest has mounted up; who is the equal and kindly brother of all.
— Thomas Carlyle
The poet strips naked. The philosopher takes notes.
— Marty Rubin
Posterity will one day laugh at the foolishness of modern materialistic philosophers.
— Louis Pasteur
Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it!
— Philibert Joseph Roux
One of the drawbacks to being a philosopher was that you became aware of what you should not do, and
— Alexander McCall Smith
The continual pursuit of meanings-wider, clearer, more negotiable, more articulate meanings- is philosophy.
— Susanne Katherina Langer
The rank and file are not philosophers, they are not educated to think for themselves, but simply to accept, unquestioned, whatever comes.
— Susan B. Anthony
The philosophers must station themselves in the middle.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
To be a philosopher you do not need to be a professor but you do have to love and understand nature.
— Debasish Mridha
William James was not a prophet. He was a philosopher whose philosophy reflected his profound humanity.
— Stanley Hauerwas
We need fewer philosophies and more philosophers.
— Frank Pierson
Well, I see I am not designed to the finding out the Philosophers Stone, I have been so unlucky in my first attempts in chemistry.
— Robert Boyle
Who lives as a citizen, may write as a philosopher - but write as a philosopher, it is to teach materialism!
— Julien Offray De La Mettrie
A married philosopher belongs to comedy.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The highest ethical duty is often to discard the outmoded ethics of the past. - Corliss Lamont, humanist philosopher
— Dale McGowan
In the end, only the truth will survive.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists.
— Richard P. Feynman
I'm an artist, not a philosopher.
— Robert Wilson
A philosopher is a fool who torments himself while he is alive, to be talked of after he is dead.
— Jean Le Rond D'Alembert
When humankind cannot produce a philosopher to speak its mind, it longs for a poet to sing its heart
— Subhan Zein
Man's greatest battle is being a true philosopher.
— Kedar Joshi
A philosopher will not believe what he sees because he is too busy speculating about what he does not see.
— Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle
Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers
— Arthur Helps
Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
— Alexander Pope
Bad philosophers may have a certain influence; good philosophers, never.
— Bertrand Russell
Philosophy is so interesting and intriguing that it is almost boring not to be a philosopher.
— Debasish Mridha
A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
— Wallace Stevens
An English philosopher said that whatever is cosmic is also comic. Do the best you can and don't take it so seriously.
— Bernie Glassman
In fact, philosophy is universal in scope. No man can live without a world view; therefore, there is no man who is not a philosopher.
— Francis Schaeffer
So the highest and the happiest of endeavors is to be a philosopher ? Doesn't it seem self-serving for a philosopher to make that claim?
— Irvin D. Yalom
Ideal goals are a menace in themselves, as much in more modern philosophers as in Plato.
— Moses Finley
I feel that we are all philosophers, and that those who describe themselves as a 'philosopher' simply do not have a day job to go to.
— Kevin Warwick
Scholars love knowledge.Philosophers love wisdom.
The most knowledgeable become professors.
The most wise become sages. — Matshona Dhliwayo
I used to think that I was stupid, and then I met philosophers.
— Terry Pratchett
It is now no mystery that some quite influential 'philosophers' were 'mentally' ill.
— Alfred Korzybski
Every good mathematician is at least half a philosopher, and every good philosopher is at least half a mathematician.
— Gottlob Frege
If Socrates died like a philosopher, Jesus Christ died like a God.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Perhaps no philosopher is more correct than the cynic. The happiness of the animal, that thorough cynic, is the living proof of cynicism.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
When prosperous the fool trembles for the evil that is to come; in adversity the philosopher smiles for the good that he has had.
— Ambrose Bierce
There Are No Believers in This World:There Are Only the Make Believers and the Non-Believers.
— Sharon Esther Lampert
I am the philosophy before any philosopher.
— J. Limbu
Humour is human. Why? Well, because the Philosopher, Aristotle, says so.
— Simon Critchley
As a philosopher, I have a right to ask for a rational explanation of religious faith.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Philosophy abounds more than philosophers, and learning more than learned men.
— William Benton Clulow
I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
— William Golding
I have lived as a philosopher and die as a Christian.
— Giacomo Casanova
He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher ... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
— Douglas Adams
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher
— Marci Shimoff
Every man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the poet.
— Henry David Thoreau
In the words of the philosopher Sceptum, the founder of my profession: am I going to get paid for this?
— Terry Pratchett
All that philosophers have handled for millennia has been conceptual mummies; nothing actual has ever escaped from their hands alive.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The philosopher spends in becoming a man the time which the ambitious man spends in becoming a personage.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
No philosopher's stone of a constitution can produce golden conduct from leaden instincts.
— Herbert Spencer
Our manner of knowing is so weak that no philosopher could perfectly investigate the nature of even one little fly.
— Thomas Aquinas
If if could bottle and patent 'Logic', I'd give it away.
— Andrea L'Artiste
If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
If one's bowels move, one is happy, and if they don't move, one is unhappy. That is all there is to it.
— Lin Yutang
As that great philosopher, Mary Poppins, once said, 'A spoonful of sugar makes the feminism go down.
— Irene Ziegler
It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity.
— Ariel Durant
