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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

Philosophers, Poets and Fools have similar Consciousness — Amit Gupta

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

Those whose hearts are fixed on Reality itself deserve the title of Philosophers. — Plato

Philosophers are capable of almost endless enjoyment of mutual misunderstanding. — Lyman Bryson

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

Young children and old ladies have inspired me more than poets and philosophers. — Marty Rubin

The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence. — Elie Wiesel

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 are adults who persist in asking childish questions. — Isaiah Berlin

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 are never happy here. Now is not their time, and here is not their space. They live there, they live somewhere else. — Rajneesh

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

Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light because they are so high. — Francis Bacon

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

Philosophers, especially metaphysicians, explore features of reality and of our mental life that are different from those explored by scientists. — L.A. Paul

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

Philosophers should be offered condolences rather than encouragement. — Mark Rowlands

On my bad days, I sometimes wonder what philosophers are for. — Jerry Fodor

He felt the
way 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

Contemporary philosophers, even the rationalistic minded ones, have on the whole agreed that no one has intelligibly banished the mystery of fact. — William James

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

Moralists and philosophers have adjudged those who throw temptation in the way of the erring, equally guilty with those who are thereby led into evil — Mark Twain

Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them. — Marty Rubin

Our environment encourages us not to be philosophers but partisans. — William James

I used to think that I was stupid, and then I met philosophers. — Terry Pratchett

Opinion rules the world, but in the long run it is the philosophers who shape opinion — Voltaire

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

Many philosophers, economists and social scientists saw the middle classes, as the tool to end all class division, with an end of days revolution — Owen H. Lewis

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

He is divine
but then I call all philosophers that. — Plato

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

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves. — M.H. Abrams

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

The purpose of philosophers is to show people what is right under their noses. — Eric Hoffer

We need fewer philosophies and more philosophers. — Frank Pierson

The further I go, the more I am confirmed in the idea that systems of metaphysics are for philosophers are what novels are for women. — Voltaire

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

All that philosophers have handled for millennia has been conceptual mummies; nothing actual has ever escaped from their hands alive. — Friedrich Nietzsche