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The hundred nights they'd sat up arguing the pros and cons of self destruction with the earnestness of philosophers chained to a madhouse wall
— Cormac McCarthy
Politicians, ideologists, theologians and philosophers try time and again to provide solutions with nothing remaining: prefab solved problems.
— Heinrich Boll
In France, philosophers are celebrities. In the United States, celebrities are philosophers.
— Peter Carlson
Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers; read, study and think a great deal of life ...
— Robert Henri
The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Say, Not so, and you will out circle the philosophers.
— Henry David Thoreau
What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
— Henry David Thoreau
Philosophers are people who talk about something they don't understand and make you think it's your fault!1
— Charles R. Swindoll
One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers.
— James Russell Lowell
There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers.
— Henry David Thoreau
The idea of Plato that philosophers must be the rulers and directors of society is practiced in India.
— Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
(And, like many philosophers, I am of the school that what goes without saying often goes even better with saying.)
— Kwame Anthony Appiah
Somehow the old philosophers could make even the most salacious topics seem boring.
— Brandon Sanderson
Posterity will one day laugh at the foolishness of modern materialistic philosophers.
— Louis Pasteur
Once in a thousand years, you know, one cat is allowed to speak. My cats are philosophers-neither of them ever cries over spilt milk.
— L.M. Montgomery
Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it!
— Philibert Joseph Roux
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
Love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.
— George Santayana
Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much.
— George Santayana
Do a bit research before you plan.
— Kamaran Ihsan Salih
Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.
— Daniel Dennett
We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now by philosophers, can once again be made central.
— Iris Murdoch
Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers.
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers.
— Luc De Clapiers
Philosophers tell you what they think. Artists show you.
— Marty Rubin
I want to read philosophers.
— Saul Kripke
Bad philosophers may have a certain influence; good philosophers, never.
— Bertrand Russell
To this principle of vanity, which philosophers call a mean one, and which I do not, I owe a great part of the figure which I have made in life.
— Lord Chesterfield
The French have never produced a great philosopher. Great wine maybe, but no great philosophers.
— Michael O'Leary
Philosophers can debate the meaning of life, but you need a Lord who can declare the meaning of life.
— Max Lucado
I am not an atheist. I simply believe in a god different from yours
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.
— Stephen Hawking
Poets and philosophers are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Kings and philosophers defecate, and so do ladies.
— Michel De Montaigne
If Socrates was alive today he would say : I know that I know everything. That's what contemporary philosophers do.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
He felt theway he imagined an angel must feel during its celebrated dance on the head of
a pin whilst being counted by philosophers. — Douglas Adams
Philosophers are always trying to climb up the fine hairs of the fur in order to stare right into the magician's eyes.
— Jostein Gaarder
Critics and academics often employ theories and philosophers in order to help them understand and dissect movies and books.
— Douglas Lain
An army of philosophers would not be sufficient to change the nature of error and to make it truth.
— Averroes
We are apt to consider Shakespeare only as a poet; but he was certainly one of the greatest moral philosophers that ever lived.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
The philosophers have always given truth a bill of divorce, by separating what nature has joined together and vice versa.
— Johann Georg Hamann
I have never come across someone who could inspire more respect than the Greek philosophers.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Indeed, the distribution of wealth is too important an issue to be left to economists, sociologists, historians, and philosophers.
— Thomas Piketty
Philosophers are only men in armor after all.
— Charles Dickens
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
— Marty Rubin
I used to think that I was stupid, and then I met philosophers.
— Terry Pratchett
In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Do not Christians and Heathens, Jews and Gentiles, poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
— Walter Scott
Unless we consent to lack the common things which men call success, we shall hardly become heroes or saints, philosophers or poets.
— John Lancaster Spalding
Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.
— Karl Marx
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
It is now no mystery that some quite influential 'philosophers' were 'mentally' ill.
— Alfred Korzybski
The philosophers write about things as they are and as they appear to be, but as an artist I find that appearance is everything.
— Gary Inbinder
A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers.
— Frederic William Farrar
Children, old crones, peasants, and dogs ramble; cats and philosophers stick to their point.
— H.P. Lovecraft
Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.
— Emile M. Cioran
Mountains breed learned men and shepherds' huts house philosophers.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Male philosophers coin phrases 'virtue is its own reward'
and female workers embody them. — Mary Jo Weaver
It's hard to put into words. Gorillas are not complainers. We're dreamers, poets, philosophers, nap takers.
— Katherine Applegate
All philosophers should end their days at Pythia's feet. There is only one philosophy, that of unique moments.
— Emile M. Cioran
Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists.
— Richard P. Feynman
The quest for our origin is the sweet fruit's juice which maintains satisfaction in the minds of the philosophers.
— Luca Pacioli
Beside some philosophers of larger vision, Carlyle stands like an honest, half-despairing boy, grasping at some details only of their world systems.
— Henry David Thoreau
Scientists search for truth. Philosophers search for morality. A criminal trial searches for only one result: proof beyond a reasonable doubt.
— Alan Dershowitz
Philosophy abounds more than philosophers, and learning more than learned men.
— William Benton Clulow
Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers
— Arthur Helps
I've been told by many the art of poetry's dead, I believe it's alive on pages they haven't read
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
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
We need fewer philosophies and more philosophers.
— Frank Pierson
Though philosophers like to define poetry as irrational fancy, for us it is practical, humorous, reasonable way of being ourselves.
— Robert Graves
Philosophers have hitherto interpreted the world in various way; the point, however, is to change it
— Karl Marx
Not a single Buddha, bodhisattva, or shengren in Europe, but in Asia: all philosophers and saints? What is that probability?
— Thorsten J. Pattberg
Conclusions that philosophers first establish by way of torturous reasoning have a way, over time, of leaking into shared knowledge.
— Rebecca Goldstein
Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
— Epictetus
The philosophers must station themselves in the middle.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
