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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
As Plato, the dangerous beguiler, said: the best philosophers in the world are boys with their beards new on their chins; I am a boy again.
— Thornton Wilder
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
The idea of Plato that philosophers must be the rulers and directors of society is practiced in India.
— Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
(And, like many philosophers, I am of the school that what goes without saying often goes even better with saying.)
— Kwame Anthony Appiah
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 very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much.
— George Santayana
Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
— Epictetus
In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
All that philosophers have handled for millennia has been conceptual mummies; nothing actual has ever escaped from their hands alive.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The philosophers must station themselves in the middle.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.
— Anton Chekhov
Conclusions that philosophers first establish by way of torturous reasoning have a way, over time, of leaking into shared knowledge.
— Rebecca Goldstein
The best writers were philosophers who wrapped their commentary about life in laughter.
— Dick Van Dyke
Philosophy abounds more than philosophers, and learning more than learned men.
— William Benton Clulow
It is now no mystery that some quite influential 'philosophers' were 'mentally' ill.
— Alfred Korzybski
Male philosophers coin phrases 'virtue is its own reward'
and female workers embody them. — Mary Jo Weaver
Mountains breed learned men and shepherds' huts house philosophers.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.
— Emile M. Cioran
Children, old crones, peasants, and dogs ramble; cats and philosophers stick to their point.
— H.P. Lovecraft
Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers.
— Frederic William Farrar
A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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
Do not Christians and Heathens, Jews and Gentiles, poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
— Walter Scott
I used to think that I was stupid, and then I met philosophers.
— Terry Pratchett
Scholars love knowledge.Philosophers love wisdom.
The most knowledgeable become professors.
The most wise become sages. — Matshona Dhliwayo
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
Ideal goals are a menace in themselves, as much in more modern philosophers as in Plato.
— Moses Finley
Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.
— Karl Marx
