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Indeed, the distribution of wealth is too important an issue to be left to economists, sociologists, historians, and philosophers.

I never went into aesthetics. Aesthetics is what philosophers have to say about art, and a lot of them take an analytics position and raise the question, "What is an art object?" As soon as you fall into that trap, an artist is going to come along and say, "That isn't art - it's something else." That's a hopeless gig.

Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them; it only creates a vacuum for eager thought to rush in.

In Iran, the women are like Italian women, they rule the house inside. But it's full of life. The history is very rich. The mystic of the Middle Ages. We have to learn from them. They influence all the philosophers when they came to Europe all those many many years ago.

Independence is the outstanding characteristic of the runner.

It has often been said, and certainly not without justification, that the man of science is a poor philosopher.

Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.

It appears that the solution of the problem of time and space is reserved to philosophers who, like Leibniz, are mathematicians, or to mathematicians who, like Einstein, are philosophers.

It is good to renew one's wonder, said the philosopher. Space travel has again made children of us all.

It is not probable that the reader will be satisfied with any of these solutions, and contemporary philosophers, even rationalistically minded ones, have on the whole agreed that no one has intelligibly banished the mystery of fact.

In my view, only those who have had the courage to work through Lacan's anti-philosophy without faltering deserve to be called 'contemporary philosophers'.

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

It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity.

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.

It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.

It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher.

It may be argued that peoples for whom philosophers legislate are always prosperous.

It often seems that the poet's derisive comment is not unjustified when he says of the philosopher: “With his nightcaps and the tatters of his dressing-gown he patches the gaps in the structure of the universe.

It is precisely in knowing its limits that philosophy consists.

It's the Platonic philosophy in The Republic that philosophers should lead the country.

It's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.

It's hard to put into words. Gorillas are not complainers. We're dreamers, poets, philosophers, nap takers.

It was Schopenhauer who made me a philosopher. Real philosophy, I told my appalled colleagues at Auckland, is about sex, death, and boredom. Since then I have expanded my horizons, but I have always retained an affection for the sage of Frankfurt.

It's usually best not to ask philosophers anything, precisely because they have the habit of what in the Persian language is called sanud: the profitless consideration of unsettling yet inconsequential things.

I used to think that I was stupid, and then I met philosophers.

It's very important to remember that the philosophers were social dissidents. They were social critics. The man in the street or woman in the street did not particularly cherish what they said. Socrates was killed.

I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.

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

I will not die, it's the world that will end." paraphrase of unknown philosopher

Kant can provide, and has provided, a good model for philosophers to think about the relation of metaphysics to science and scientific methodology.

I was a poet animated by philosophy, not a philosopher with poetic faculties.

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Know that the philosopher has power over the stars, and not the stars over him.

Jean-Paul Sartre, the existentialist philosopher who celebrated the anguish of decision as a hallmark of responsibility, has no place in Silicon Valley.

Legislators, priests, philosophers, writers, ans scientists have striven to show that the subordinate position of woman is willed in heaven and advantageous on earth.

Let us be dreamers, thinkers, speculative philosophers, or as our spouses would have it: Idiots

Like the famous mad philosopher said, when you stare into the void, the void stares also; but if you cast into the void, you get a type conversion error. (Which just goes to show Nietzsche wasn't a C++ programmer.)

Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it; and every philosopher supplies the logic his own undoing.

Look not for refuge to anyone beside yourself. Heed fast to the truth as a lamp.

Les vrais philosophes sont comme les e  le  phants, qui en marchant ne posent jamais le second pied a'   terre que le premier ne soit bien affermi. True philosophers are like elephants, who when walking never placetheir second footontheground untilthefirst is steady.

Linguistic philosophers continue to argue that probably music is not a language, that is in the philosophical debate. Another point of view is to say that music is a very profound language.

Morally, a philosopher who uses his professional competence for anything except a disinterested search for truth is guilty of a kind of treachery.

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.

Marry a good woman, and be happy the rest of your life. Or, marry a bad, and become a good philosopher

Man is brilliant at solving problems; but solving them only makes him the victim of his own childishness and laziness. It is this recognition that has made almost every major philosopher in history a pessimist.

My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries.

No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it's the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.

Never call yourself a philosopher, nor talk a great deal among the unlearned about theorems, but act conformably to them. Thus, at an entertainment, don't talk how persons ought to eat, but eat as you ought. For remember that in this manner Socrates also universally avoided all ostentation.

No philosopher's stone of a constitution can produce golden conduct from leaden instincts.

No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.