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A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.

A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers.

All are sure in their days except the most wise ... He is the wisest philosopher who holds his theory with some doubt.

All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher!

All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative.

Anyway, there is a lot of really interesting work going on in the neuroscience and psychology of consciousness, and I would love to see philosophers become more closely involved with this.

An army of philosophers would not be sufficient to change the nature of error and to make it truth.

An English philosopher said that whatever is cosmic is also comic. Do the best you can and don't take it so seriously.

A philosopher of imposing stature doesn't think in a vacuum. Even his most abstract ideas are, to some extent, conditioned by what is or is not known in the time when he lives.

A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.

A poet is not somebody who has great thoughts. That is the menial duty of the philosopher. A poet is somebody who expresses his thoughts, however commonplace they may be, exquisitely. That is the one and only difference between the poet and everybody else.

Although according to certain philosophers it is quite difficult to distinguish the jester from the melancholic, life itself being a comic drama or a dramatic comedy.

A man becomes a philosopher by reason of a certain perplexity, from which he seeks to free himself.

A married philosopher is a comic character.

And tell him it's quite true that the best of the philosophers are of no use to their fellows; but that he should blame, not the philosophers, but those who fail to make use of them.

Anytime you see a Hungarian, kick him. He'll know why. Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.

A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human"?

A philosophy is characterized more by the formulation of its problem than by its solution of them.

A philosopher who says, 'There are no truths, only interpretations,' risks the retort: 'Is that true, or only an interpretation?'

A pipe is a pocket philosopher,--a truer one than Socrates, for it never asks questions. Socrates must have been very tiresome, when one thinks of it.

Aristotle wore many rings and expensive clothes. ... Plato found this off-putting and unsuited for a philosopher.

Are you a philosopher? Where's your sponge?

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.

As a philosopher, I have a right to ask for a rational explanation of religious faith.

As a bio-philosopher - as someone who draws upon the scriptures of nature, recognizing that we are the product of the process of evolution, and in a sense, we have become the process itself - through the emergence and evolution of our consciousness, our awareness, our capacity to imagine and to anticipate the future and to choose from amongst alternatives.

As a philosopher, you define constraints for any good theory explaining what you are interested in, then you go out and search for help in other disciplines.

As a philosopher, I'm not obliged to explore every unknown wilderness.

A State would be happy where philosophers were kings, or kings philosophers.

As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but as long as there have been philosophers and they have thought, most of them have tried to mask it.

As the Cameroonian philosopher Achille Mbembe has presciently pointed out, neoliberal corporate globalism threatens to exploit that advantage like never before, and it seems set to turn vast swathes of humanity into "the Negros of a new racism.

At times, I have been criticized by some philosophers of education, who place me in postures that they classify pejoratively as 'revolutionary.' But I have had the satisfaction of being invited to work in societies making progressive efforts without wavering. They were changing, and so they called on me.

At best, the true philosopher can fulfil his mission very imperfectly, which is to pilot himself, or at most a few voluntary companions who may find themselves in the same boat.

At first sight nothing seems more obvious than that everything has a beginning and an end, and that everything can be subdivided into smaller parts. Nevertheless, for entirely speculative reasons the philosophers of Antiquity, especially the Stoics, concluded this concept to be quite unnecessary. The prodigious development of physics has now reached the same conclusion as those philosophers, Empedocles and Democritus in particular, who lived around 500 B.C.E. and for whom even ancient man had a lively admiration.

A vulgar man, in any ill that happens to him, blames others; a novice in philosophy blames himself; and a philosopher blames neither, the one nor the other.

A universal peace, it is to be feared, is in the catalogue of events, which will never exist but in the imaginations of visionary philosophers, or in the breasts of benevolent enthusiasts.

Because the Western civilization is dominated by dualistic thinking, holistic scientists and philosophers don't get the recognition they deserve.

By his provocations to good-natured merriment, a humorist of the first water contributes as much to the sum of happiness as the gravest philosopher.

Bertrand Russell started off as a mathematician and then degenerated into a philosopher and finally into a humanist; he went downhill rapidly!

Before researchers become researches they should become philosophers.

Being able to make friends and keep them, welcoming others and sharing with them, a guide, philosopher and friend. One like this will be praised.

Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.

BERTRAND RUSSELL, The Philosophy of Logical Atomism We've associated that word philosophy with academic study that in its own way has gotten so far beyond the layman that if you read contemporary philosophy you've no clue, because it's almost become math. And it's odd that if you don't do that and you call yourself a philosopher that you always get 'homespun' attached to it.

But the man who is ready to taste every form of knowledge, is glad to learn and never satisfied - he's the man who deserves to be called a philosopher, isn't he?

Comedians are thinkers. The best ones are akin to philosophers, in my opinion.

Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.

Constant happiness is the philosopher's stone of the soul.

Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently or not.

Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.