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

Economists can be called the worldly philosophers for they sought to embrace in a scheme of philosophy the most worldly of man's activities-his drive for wealth.

Einstein, my upset stomach hates your theory [of General Relativity]—it almost hates you yourself! How am I to' provide for my students? What am I to answer to the philosophers?!!

Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.

Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labour of its unfamiliar thought.

Epistemologists should be concerned with knowledge and justification and so on, not our concepts of them; philosophers of mind should be concerned with various features of our mental life and the large-scale structure of the mind, not our concepts of mind, or consciousness, or anything else

Eventually I realized that for contemporary philosophers conceptual analysis per se was an end in itself. For some, it was somehow supposed to lead to the truth about these phenomena, not just to tidy things up a bit.

Every man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the poet.

Everyone knows Newton as the great scientist. Few remember that he spent half his life muddling with alchemy , looking for the philosopher's stone. That was the pebble by the seashore he really wanted to find.

Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.

Experiences are the chemicals of life with which the philosopher experiments

Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.

For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd.

For the learning of every virtue there is an appropriate discipline, and for the learning of suspended judgment the best discipline is philosophy.

For particulars, as everyone knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society.

For they, the philosophers, were considered teachers of right living, which is far more excellent, since to speak well belongs only to a few, but to live well belongs to all.

For us scientists, on the other wing, life is not quite so simple. Because we learn the unknown. Unlike, hah-hah, our esteemed friends the philosophers, who learn the unknowable.

Funest philosophers and ponderers, Their evocations are the speech of clouds.

He raged for hours. And the skeleton, ever the frail and solelmn philosopher, hung quietly inside, saying not a word, suspended like a delicate insect within a chrysalis, waiting and waiting.

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

Good comedians are great philosophers.

How I understand the philosopher - as a terrible explosive, endangering everthing... my concept of the philosopher is worlds removed from any concept that would include even a Kant, not to speak of academic "ruminants" and other professors of philosophy.

He who esteems trifles for themselves is a trifler; he who esteems them for the conclusions to be drawn from them, or the advantage to which they can be put, is a philosopher.

He who has lived as a true philosopher has reason to be of good cheer when he is about to die, and that after death he may hope to receive the greatest good in the other world.

Hold fast, therefore, O circular philosopher, to thy centre, and drive the globe along its orbit by the momentum of thy thought.

Honor to the idealists, whether philosophers or poets. They have improved us by mingling with our daily pursuits great and transcendent conceptions. They have thrown around our sensual life the grandeur of a better, and drawn us up from contacts with the temporal and the selfish to communion with beauty and truth and goodness.

How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising glory.

How something important happens is the business of historians and newspapers, the effect it has is the business of philosophers and writers and especially poets.

I call myself an experimental philosopher which is as ambiguous a term as comprehensive anticipatory design scientist.

I am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers.

I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.

I am only a philosopher, and there is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do, and that is, to contradict other philosophers.

Humour is human. Why? Well, because the Philosopher, Aristotle, says so.

I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.

I could never teach people to be philosophers - and if I did, you could never make a gardener out of them.

I consider myself a 3-D philosopher. I am not a designer at all. I studied aerodynamics, I studied philosophy, I studied sculpture. High technology on one side, and on the other side, art.

Ideal goals are a menace in themselves, as much in more modern philosophers as in Plato.

I don't see myself as a philosopher. That's awfully boring.

I do not seek the good of others as a sanction for my right to exist, nor do I recognize the good of others as a justification for their seizure of my property or their destruction of my life.

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

If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers.

I feel that we are all philosophers, and that those who describe themselves as a 'philosopher' simply do not have a day job to go to.

I do realise that talk of natural kinds dates back to Aristotle, but I'd better not say too much about ancient philosophers lest I be convicted of practicing history of philosophy without a license.

I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher

If there is ever an amelioration of the condition of mankind, philosophers, theologians, legislators, politicians and moralists will find that the regulation of the press is the most difficult, dangerous and important problem they have to resolve. Mankind cannot now be governed without it, nor at present with it.

If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.

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

If true happiness depended on the thoughts of man, then all philosophers and deep thinkers would be filled to overflowing with it.

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.

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.