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If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants — Friedrich Nietzsche

A dog is the best philosopher because he knows what you want and gives you that with kindness and love. — Debasish Mridha

The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently or not. — Stephen Vizinczey

Each philosopher, each bard, each actor has only done for me, as by a delegate, what one day I can do for myself. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't touch me," I snarl. "What was that? What happened? Where am I?" "Careful, you're turning into a philosopher. — Victoria Aveyard

The English philosopher Michael Oakeshott notes that one of the signs of being cold today is that one knows what one doesn't have to know. — Joseph Epstein

The proof that a philosopher does not know what he is talking about is apt to sadden his followers before it reacts on himself. — Henry Adams

I'm more curious to know what a cat think than what a philosopher thinks. — Marty Rubin

What must the English and French think of the language of our philosophers when we Germans do not understand it ourselves? — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

What does a philosopher demand of himself, first and last? To overcome his time in himself, to become timeless. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man. — Denis Diderot

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

Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings? — Diogenes Of Sinope

One of the drawbacks to being a philosopher was that you became aware of what you should not do, and — Alexander McCall Smith

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition! — William James

What does the philosopher say? Odi ergo sum. I hate therefore I am. — Umberto Eco

What is reality? Is it not merely a term for the philosopher to conjure with, behind which he may craftily conceal his ignorance? — John Grier Hibben

Where will they all sleep and dine? How do philosophers party? What should we print on the pillows and promotional cups? — Thorsten J. Pattberg

A leader is solution oriented and a philosopher is problem oriented. — Debasish Mridha

What a pity that 'nothingness' has been devalued by an abuse of it made by philosophers unworthy of it! — Emile M. Cioran

Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was. — Ed Smith

A big rock can handle a hammer blow, it just gets chipped a little, what it can't handle is erosion — Stefan Molyneux

What the philosopher is seeking is not truth, but rather the metamorphosis of the world into man. — Friedrich Nietzsche

What I understand by "philosopher": a terrible explosive in the presence of which everything is in danger. — Friedrich Nietzsche

If what charms you is nothing but abstract principles, sit down and turn them over quietly in your mind: but never dub yourself a Philosopher. — Epictetus

What's a philosopher?' said Brutha.
Someone who's bright enough to find a job with no heavy lifting,' said a voice in his head. — Terry Pratchett

If Socrates was alive today he would say : I know that I know everything. That's what contemporary philosophers do. — Ljupka Cvetanova

What shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the chameleon poet. — John Keats

A philosopher will not believe what he sees because he is too busy speculating about what he does not see. — Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle

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

What the first philosopher taught the last will have to repeat. — Henry David Thoreau

A philosopher being asked what was the first thing necessary to win the love of a woman, answered, Opportunity! — Thomas Moore

The Greek philosopher Epictetus said, First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. — Laini Taylor

Eckhart Tolle, the new age philosopher, says, "What you do is secondary. How you do it is primary. — Jennifer L. Scott

This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion. — Albert Einstein

On my bad days, I sometimes wonder what philosophers are for. — Jerry Fodor

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

The apparent facts, if you like. I'm not a philosopher. We lawyers don't deal in ultimate realities. Who knows what they are? We deal in appearances. — Ross Macdonald

The philosopher Didactylos has summed up an alternative hypothesis as "Things just happen. What the hell". — Terry Pratchett

One believed what one was told to believe, what it made sense to believe. Unless one was a foreigner, of course, or a philosopher. — Iain M. Banks

What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak. George Santayana, Spanish philosopher — Anonymous

A philosopher philosophizes what people need to hear. A motivational speaker speaks what people want to hear. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

But in the words of a great philosopher, you can't always get what you want. — Jonathan Kellerman

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

And Numenius, the Pythagorean philosopher, expressly writes: 'For what is Plato, but Moses speaking in Attic Greek.' — Clement Of Alexandria