Best 1483 quotes in «philosopher quotes» category

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.)

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

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

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.

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.

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

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.

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.

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

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

No book can teach you about yourself, no psychologist, none of the professors or philosophers. What they can teach you is what they think you are or what they think you should be.

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.

No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.

No philosopher was ever apathetic. If there is no love, it is not philosophy.

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

One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers.

One can defend common sense against the attacks of philosophers only by solving their puzzles, i.e., by curing them of the temptation to attack common sense.

One of the old philosophers says that it is the part of wisdom to sometimes seem a fool; but in our day there are too many ready-made ones to render this a desirable policy.

One of the reasons my name is Rushdie is that my father was an admirer of Ibn Rush'd, the 12th century Arab philosopher known as Averroes in the West. In his time, he was making the non-literalist case for interpreting the Koran.

Paul indeed wanted to reveal the unknown God to the philosophers and then affirms of Him, that no human intellect can conceive Him. Therefore, God is revealed therein, that one knows that every intellect is too small to make itself a figuration or concept of Him. However, he names him God, or in Greek, theos.

One of the reasons why architects are often attracted to philosophers, partially, has to do with making sense of the world around us as well as the making of worlds.

One philosopher has rightly said that property is theft. But I'd like to use my future ownership of property to give something back.

Only the free-wheeling artist-explorer, non-academic, scientist-philosopher, mechanic, economist-poet who has never waited for patron-starting and accrediting of his co-ordinate capabilities holds the prime initiative today.

Only fools and philosophers waste time on the unknowable.

Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.

Philosophers ought to aspire to know lots of different things and to forge useful synthetic perspectives.

Philosophers and psychiatrists should explain why it is that we mathematicians are in the habit of systematically erasing our footsteps. Scientists have always looked askance at this strange habit of mathematicians, which has changed little from Pythagoras to our day.

Philosophers, for example, often fail to recognize that their remarks about the universe apply also to themselves and their remarks. If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so.

Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.

Philosophers are smart, analytical, and skeptical. For these reasons they are relatively unbiased.

Philosophy abounds more than philosophers, and learning more than learned men.

Philosophers are often actively disinterested in what happens between the cup and the lips (after all, that's "non-ideal theory").

Philosophers are only men in armor after all.

Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much.

Philosophers, especially metaphysicians, explore features of reality and of our mental life that are different from those explored by scientists.

Philosophers say that nothing can be seen that is neither illuminated nor colored.

Philosophy recovers itself when it ceases to be a device for dealing with the problems of philosophers and becomes a method, cultivated by philosophers, for dealing with the problems of men.

Philosopher is becoming God in the process called life.

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

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.