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There's no free will," says the philosopher; "To hang is most unjust." "There is no free will," assents the officer; "We hang because we must.

There's no precedent for women philosophers and there's no precedence for most of the things I did.

There was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently

The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.

The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic.

The scientists often have more unfettered imaginations than current philosophers do. Relativity theory came as a complete surprise to philosophers, and so did quantum mechanics, and so did other things.

These are fashionable people who call themselves philosophers.

These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to moderate.

The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.

The technology [semiconductors] which has transformed practical existence is largely an application of what was discovered by these allegedly irresponsible [natural] philosophers.

The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful.

This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time.

The upshot is that most philosophers of biology now hold that biological properties supervene on physical properties (where supervenience is taken to include some kind of "in virtue of" relation), and that fitness and other biological properties are not identical with physical properties.

.. the word ecology, coined by the German biologist and philosopher Ernst Haeckel (initially as oecology) in 1866. derives from the Greek oikos, "referring originally to the family household and its daily operations and maintenance." The term ecology is therefore intended to refer to the study of the conditions of existence that pertain to, and the interactions between, all the entities that make up our larger, cosmic household here upon earth.

they go and set up free-will with the heathen philosophers and say that a man's free will is the cause why God chooseth and not another, contrary to all scriptures.

The unambitious sluggard pretends that the eminence is not worth attaining, declines altogether the struggle, and calls himself a philosopher. I say he is a poor-spirited coward.

The visible world was only an imperfect reflection of the Ideal, which the Philosopher sought to transcend.

The words of that philosopher who offers no therapy for human suffering are empty and vain.

This is a question too difficult for a mathematician. It should be asked of a philosopher"(when asked about completing his income tax form)

This is too difficult for a mathematician. It takes a philosopher. The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

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

This sort of thing has got to be stopped. Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business.

This principle of nature being very remote from the conceptions of Philosophers, I forbore to describe it in that book, least I should be accounted an extravagant freak and so prejudice my Readers against all those things which were the main designe of the book.

This sense of wonder is the mark of the philosopher. Philosophy indeed has no other origin.

Those who are not schooled and practised in truth [who are not honest and upright men] can never manage aright the government, nor yet can those who spend their lives as closet philosophers; because the former have no high purpose to guide their actions, while the latter keep aloof from public life.

Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

Throughout the whole of life one must continue to learn to live and what will amaze you even more, throughout life you must learn to die. Seneca (Roman philosopher)

To a philosopher no circumstance, however trifling, is too minute.

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

To become a philosopher, start by walking very slowly.

To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.

To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time.

Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers.

...To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage

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.

What a pity that 'nothingness' has been devalued by an abuse of it made by philosophers unworthy of it!

Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison.

Welders make more money than philosophers. We need more welders and less philosophers.

Until philosophers hold power, neither states nor individuals will have rest from trouble.

We should listen to both philosophers and scientists, because the philosophical contribution is different from the scientific contribution, and both of them are worthwhile.

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.

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.

What shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the chameleon poet.

What the philosophers once knew as life has become the sphere of private existence and now of mere consumption, dragged along as an appendage of the process of material production, without autonomy or substance of its own.

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

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

What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?

What you can imagine depends on what you know. Philosophers who know only philosophy consign themselves to a janitorial role in the great enterprises of exploration that are illuminating the mysteries of our lives.

When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.