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The highest philosophers, in explaining the mystery of this world, are obliged to call in the aid of another. — Josh Billings

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

In France, philosophers are celebrities. In the United States, celebrities are philosophers. — Peter Carlson

French philosophers had been able to admire Mao and his works because they did not have to live in China at the time. — Alexander McCall Smith

I leaf through the ancient philosophers and find my newest discoveries there. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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

What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats? — Henry David Thoreau

One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers. — James Russell Lowell

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

The idea of Plato that philosophers must be the rulers and directors of society is practiced in India. — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

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

The classifications made by philosophers and psychologists are like trying to classify clouds by their shape. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

I've been very fortunate and met the guys that have become, basically, philosophers and have a kind of sensibility about life that's very precious. — Val Kilmer

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

she's offering me more cryptic phrases with a depth to them that even the top-ranked philosophers would have a difficult time decoding. — Kayla Krantz

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

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

The blood of the heroes is closer to God than the ink of the philosophers and the prayers of the faithful. — Julius Evola

Philosophers are divided on the question of whether the narrative therein unfolded [the Crossman Diaries] is grippingly boring or boringly gripping. — Clive James

Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it! — Philibert Joseph Roux

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

Love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers. — George Santayana

Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination and nothing has been the occasion of more mistakes among philosophers. — David Hume

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

If true happiness depended on the thoughts of man, then all philosophers and deep thinkers would be filled to overflowing with it. — Sadhu Sundar Singh

Philosophers should be, as Seneca put it, 'lawyers for humanity'. Make what you think and feel count; the examined life has global dimensions. — Martha C. Nussbaum

To test a perfect theory with imperfect instruments did not impress the Greek philosophers as a valid way to gain knowledge. — Isaac Asimov

Those who have the largest hearts have the soundest understandings; and they are the truest philosophers who can forget themselves. — William Hazlitt

Harry: "And what if I wave my wand and nothing happens?"
Ron: "Throw it away and punch him on the nose. — J.K. Rowling

The poets and artists and philosophers, resistance activists, secret scouts and troublemakers, had become, as they must, soldiers. Now, — China Mieville

I think a lot of philosophers get so absorbed and distracted from the real matters of the world that they get lost in irrelevant sub-details. — Pam Gems

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity. — Samuel Beckett

For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd. — Josh McDowell

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

But of all nations in the world the English are perhaps the least a nation of pure philosophers. — Walter Bagehot

The poets did not win; the philosophers surrendered. — Umberto Eco

In the beginning the Poets and Philosophers taught the world to see. Then after that any form of education was no longer free. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

Since the time of Plato and Aristotle philosophers have had an interest in taking note of common fallacies in reasoning. — Randal Marlin

The philosophers stone is just an allegory. It represents everything that man wants and can never have. — Katherine Howe

Fireworks: we shoot them off gaily while our dogs hide under the bed. Philosophers are dogs! — Anthony Marais

The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied. — Sigmund Freud

Philosophers are in the habit of setting themselves before life and experience. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The figure of Satan and the fires of hell have been demythologized by modern Christian biblical scholars, theologians and philosophers. — John Bradshaw

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

By examining the tongue of the patient, physicians find out the diseases of the body, and philosophers the diseases of the mind. — Justin Martyr

One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world. — Karl Marx

Philosophers can debate the meaning of life, but you need a Lord who can declare the meaning of life. — Max Lucado

We are all philosophers. The only question is to what extent is our philosophy sound! — Chris Matakas

What we philosophers can do is just correct the questions. — Slavoj Zizek

There's no precedent for women philosophers and there's no precedence for most of the things I did. — Agnes Denes

Children are the greatest philosophers : the questions that children ask require the deepest of thoughts and the longest of reflections on life! — Avijeet Das

If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers. — Frederick The Great

Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society. — Aldous Huxley

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

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

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

The quest for our origin is the sweet fruit's juice which maintains satisfaction in the minds of the philosophers. — Luca Pacioli

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 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

Philosophers have hitherto interpreted the world in various way; the point, however, is to change it — Karl Marx

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

Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers. — Luc De Clapiers

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

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

Scholars love knowledge.
Philosophers love wisdom.
The most knowledgeable become professors.
The most wise become sages. — Matshona Dhliwayo

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

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

An army of philosophers would not be sufficient to change the nature of error and to make it truth. — Averroes

We are in danger of seeing philosophers who doubt the law of gravity as being a mere fancy of their own. — G.K. Chesterton

If thou knewest the whole Bible, and the sayings of all the philosophers, what should all this profit thee without the love and grace of God? — Thomas A Kempis

The neuroscience of consciousness is not going to stop in its tracks because some philosophers guesses that project cannot be productive. — Patricia Churchland

Saints cannot arise where there have been no warriors, nor philosophers where a prying beast does not remain hidden in the depths. — George Santayana

The French have never produced a great philosopher. Great wine maybe, but no great philosophers. — Michael O'Leary

Poets and philosophers are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

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

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

I do not need the musing of the philosophers to tell me what I am doing. It would be more interesting to let me know why I am doing it. — Louise Bourgeois

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

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

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

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