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You seem to be in a state of such absolute contradiction that I would not be surprised if your face tore in half. — Mary-Jean Harris

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. — Socrates

I would like to be a philosopher in ancient Athens and a poet in ancient China. — Shan Sa

Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities. — Bertrand Russell

I have tried in my time to be a philosopher; but somehow cheerfulness was always breaking in. — Oliver Edwards

Aristotle says that in order to live alone one must either be an animal or a god. The third alternative is lacking. A man must be both; a philosopher. — Friedrich Nietzsche

To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher. — Blaise Pascal

A philosopher is a mathematician, who might not be good at solving mathematical problems but knows 'which one' to solve and 'why' to solve it... — Victor Ghoshe

I have a general moral: great philosophers may be great, but that is not a reason to follow them. Don't be a follower. Work it out for yourself. — Tim Crane

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

I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer. — Friedrich Nietzsche

By all implies marry if you get a great wife/husband, you are going to be pleased. If you get a bad a single, you are going to become a philosopher. — Socrates

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers. — William James

if a philosopher wishes to be useful to human society, he must announce a God. — Voltaire

In order to be a really good investor, you need to be a little bit of a philosopher as well. — Daniel S. Loeb

A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

To be a philosopher, just reverse everything you have ever been told ... and have a sense of humor doing it. — Criss Jami

How easy it is, Doctor, to be a philosopher on paper, and how difficult in real life! — Anton Chekhov

A philosopher is a fool who torments himself while he is alive, to be talked of after he is dead. — Jean Le Rond D'Alembert

Philosophy is so interesting and intriguing that it is almost boring not to be a philosopher. — Debasish Mridha

I want to be remembered as a poet, a peacemaker, and a philosopher who played. — Mattie Stepanek

That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics. — Aldo Leopold

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

To be a philosopher ... is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically. — Henry David Thoreau

There's no greater sign of being a poor philosopher and wise man than wanting all of life to be wise and philosophical. — Giacomo Leopardi

You don't need schooling to be a philosopher. Just an active mind and experience with life. — Isaac Asimov

So the highest and the happiest of endeavors is to be a philosopher ? Doesn't it seem self-serving for a philosopher to make that claim? — Irvin D. Yalom

I don't pretend to be an intellectual or a philosopher. I just look. — Josef Koudelka

What is it to be a philosopher? Is it not to be prepared against events? — Epictetus

a quotation from the Spanish philosopher Ortega y Gasset as an epigraph for Stoner: "A hero is one who wants to be himself." In — John Williams

When Zeno received news of a shipwreck and heard that all his luggage had been sunk he said, Fortune bids me to be a less encumbered philosopher. — Seneca.

To be a philosopher you do not need to be a professor but you do have to love and understand nature. — Debasish Mridha

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Epictetus (50-120) Greek philosopher. — Epictetus

Whoever is so stupid as to imagine God to be either masculine or feminine openly shows that he is as bad a philosopher as a theologian. — Marie De Gournay

It would be no reproach to a philosopher, that he knew the future better than the past, or even than the present. It is better worth knowing. — Henry David Thoreau

I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher. — Jonathan Swift

Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and a great one. — George Bernard Shaw

People can think only in images. If you want to be a philosopher, write novels. — Albert Camus

I am a disciple of the philosopher Dionysus, and I would prefer to be even a satyr than a saint. — Friedrich Nietzsche

This seems plainly absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities. One — Bertrand Russell

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking. — William James

Being able to make friends and keep them, welcoming others and sharing with them, a guide, philosopher and friend. One like this will be praised. — Gautama Buddha

It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life. — Anton Chekhov