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The greatest modern philosopher was moved by nothing more than by duty. His life, in consequence, was unremarkable.
— Roger Scruton
The philosopher Isaiah Berlin sagely pointed out, liberty for wolves means death to lambs.124
— Naomi Oreskes
There is nothing as dangerous as an economist who only knows economics except the moral philosopher who knows no economics.
— Peter J. Boettke
The options available to a creative person are ever limited by the choices offered by a philosopher.
— Neil DeGrasse Tyson
The picture which the philosopher draws of the world is surely not one in which every stroke is necessitated by pure logic.
— Morris Raphael Cohen
The elixir of life, the philosopher's stoneis yours if you surrender
sterile logic, trivial reason. — Hilda Doolittle
The facile economic and psychological debunking of the theoretical life cannot do away with its irreducible beauties.
— Allan Bloom
According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat
— Moliere
He said that the only decent German philosopher was Lichtenberg, who was less a philosopher than the ultimate jokester and clown.
— Roberto Bolano
All real philosophers have been artists in the realm of concepts.
— Rudolf Steiner
Divers philosophers hold that the lips is parcel of the mouth.
— William Shakespeare
You scoundrel, you have wronged me," hissed the philosopher, "May you live forever!
— Ambrose Bierce
We like the fine extravagance of that philosopher who declared that no man was as rich as all men ought to be.
— Edwin Percy Whipple
The old men ask for more time; the young waste it. And the philosopher simply smiles, knowing there is none there.
— R.S. Thomas
According to Nietzche," said a sharp new voice, making them all jump, "philosophy is the biography of the philosopher.
— J.K. Rowling
To live alone one must be either a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!
— William James
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
A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.
— Laurence J. Peter
Death comes in endless forms. Of the body. Of the soul. Of the heart. - Catriona Mercant, philosopher and warrior. (circa 1419)
— Nalini Singh
I - a philosopher - live in the cage of flesh and blood.
— Kedar Joshi
A great philosopher in the wrong is like a beacon on the reefs which says to seamen: steer clear of me.
— Jacques Maritain
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.{His teacher was the legendary philosopher Aristotle} — Alexander The Great
How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising glory.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Seek simplicity, but distrust it," Alfred North Whitehead, the mathematician and philosopher, once advised his students. Dobzhansky
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
The words of that philosopher who offers no therapy for human suffering are empty and vain.
— Epicurus
By legend and perhaps by nature philosophers are more accustomed to the armchair than the workbench.
— Ian Hacking
The human mind is not, as philosophers would have you think, a debating hall, but a picture gallery.
— Douglas Harding
Only a philosopher would consider taking Oedipus as a model for a normal, unproblematic relation between an action and the maxim of the act.
— Jerry A. Fodor
There is only one thing I should like better; and that would be to see the Philosopher making the same sort of meal himself, with the same relish.
— Charles Dickens
God, of course, is the greatest philosopher of all.
— Richard M. Nixon
To be a philosopher ... is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.
— Henry David Thoreau
Mrs. Wiggs was a philosopher, and the sum and substance of her philosophy lay in keeping the dust off her rose-colored spectacles.
— Alice Hegan Rice
Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it; and every philosopher supplies the logic his own undoing.
— Elbert Hubbard
Can an ass be tragic?To perish under a burden that one can neither bear nor cast off? The case of the philosopher. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Is literature better, is politics better, for having discarded the moralist and the philosopher?
— G.K. Chesterton
Ability does catches my attention, but its a politeness in the person that I remember.
— Amit Kalantri
Nothing is too absurd to be said by some of the philosophers.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
The philosopher Alfred North Whitehead has advised us to "seek simplicity and distrust it.
— Scott Richard Shaw
The philosopher caught in the nets of language.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophers play with the word, like a child with a doll. It does not mean that everything in life is relative.
— Albert Einstein
Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers.
— Luc De Clapiers
To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The philosopher says think your way out. The sensualist says play your way out but none of it works.
— Billy Graham
Schiller is an important philosopher because he shows just how integral the idea of beauty is in normal life.
— Frederick C. Beiser
Eckhart Tolle, the new age philosopher, says, "What you do is secondary. How you do it is primary.
— Jennifer L. Scott
The whole life of a philosopher is the meditation of his death.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The ruler must be a philosopher as well as a king; and he must govern unwillingly, because he loves philosophy better than dominion.
— Marcus Aurelius
In the end, only the truth will survive.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
The philosopher spends in becoming a man the time which the ambitious man spends in becoming a personage.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
— Wallace Stevens
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
I am the philosophy before any philosopher.
— J. Limbu
It is not meant that the artist, in arriving at truth, must follow the way of the scientist, or, in stating it, the way of the philosopher.
— George Edward Woodberry
In the words of the philosopher Sceptum, the founder of my profession: am I going to get paid for this?
— Terry Pratchett
Epictetus, a Greek philosopher, once wrote, Circumstances do not make the man. They merely reveal him to himself.
— Brian Tracy
The philosopher Elaine Scarry has observed that "beauty always takes place in the particular." Cruelty, on the other hand, prefers abstraction.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
Philosophy is the architectonic art and the philosopher the archetypal person
— Richard H. Popkin
The man of science, the artist, the philosopher are attached to their nations as much as the day-laborer and the merchant.
— Julien Benda
The philosopher is someone who doesn't know, but who wants to find out.
— Simon Critchley
To a common man, the opulence of the day makes no sense but to a philosopher, it is as clear as a night in the southern France.
— Indiana Lang
For there was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently.
— William Shakespeare
The philosopher Didactylos has summed up an alternative hypothesis as "Things just happen. What the hell".
— Terry Pratchett
