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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

Philosophers, Poets and Fools have similar Consciousness — Amit Gupta

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 adults who persist in asking childish questions. — Isaiah Berlin

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

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

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

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

To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage — Plutarch

The best writers were philosophers who wrapped their commentary about life in laughter. — Dick Van Dyke

Comedians are thinkers. The best ones are akin to philosophers, in my opinion. — Ted Alexandro

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

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

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

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

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

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