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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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 theway 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
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
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