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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's stone of a constitution can produce golden conduct from leaden instincts.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Philosopher is becoming God in the process called life.

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.

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.

Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.

Philosophy may be dodged, eloquence cannot.

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.

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.

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

Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.

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.

Plato dramatically puts the detachment of the philosopher from his time this way: to philosophize is to prepare to die.

Plato used to say to Xenocrates the philosopher, who was rough and morose, "Good Xenocrates, sacrifice to the Graces.

Plato, by the way, wanted to banish all poets from his proposed Utopia because they were liars. The truth was that Plato knew philosophers couldn't compete successfully with poets.

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.

Philosophers of biology generally recognize that evolutionary fitness (roughly, an organism's ability to survive and reproduce in its environment) is multiply realizable.

Philosophers say that perfection is unattainable. Lithographers redefine perfection according to SEMI standards.

Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age.

Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.

Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher

Problems come and go over time, and to understand why is a difficult historical task. If one wanted to find the origin of a problem, historical research and close attention to texts is what is needed, not unconstrained speculation about the 'pictures' that philosophers must be in the grip of.

Professional philosophers are usually only apologists: that is, they are absorbed in defending some vested illusion or some eloquent idea. Like lawyers or detectives, they study the case for which they are retained.

Pure draughtsmen are philosophers and dialecticians. Colourists are epic poets.

Scientists disagree among themselves but they never fight over their disagreements. They argue about evidence or go out and seek new evidence. Much the same is true of philosophers, historians and literary critics.

Say, Not so, and you will out circle the philosophers.

Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.

Sed nescio quo modo nihil tam absurde dici potest quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosphorum. (There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.)

Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers.