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.. 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

To become a philosopher, start by walking very slowly.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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'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.

When Marx, in the Theses on Feuerbach, says that only idealism up to now has understood the active side of material Praxis, what he says is more true of Fichte than of any other philosopher in the classical German tradition.

When I was 16 I started keeping a diary in which I recorded my disagreements with the famous philosophers. I didn't insist that they were wrong, that I was right and I had to prevail. I just agreed and disagreed with them. I thought there was a high degree of probability that I was right and some other thinkers were wrong. But I wasn't positive about it.

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.

Wherefore all theology, when separated from Christ, is not only vain and confused, but is also mad, deceitful, and spurious; for, though the philosophers sometimes utter excellent sayings, yet they have nothing but what is short-lived, and even mixed up with wicked and erroneous sentiments.

When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.

When we come to understand architecture as the essential nature of all harmonious structure we will see that it is the architecture of music that inspired Bach and Beethoven, the architecture of painting that is inspiring Picasso as it inspired Velasquez, that it is the architecture of life itself that is the inspiration of the great poets and philosophers.

When you can't smoke, if you stand and stare out of the window on your own, you're an antisocial, friendless idiot. If you stand and stare out of the window on your own with a cigarette, you're a philosopher.

When we call a philosopher distinguished, we are not saying that she is worthy and not saying that she is recognized, but we are saying that she occupies the intersection of both - that she is recognized and worthy; even that she is recognized because she's worthy.

Without at all invalidating what we have just said, we believe that a perpetual remembrance of the tomb is proper for the living. On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.

Whoso has sixpence is sovereign (to the length of sixpence) over all men; commands cooks to feed him, philosophers to teach him, kings to mount guard over him,to the length of sixpence.

Why is it apparently the philosopher who is expected to be "easier" and not some scientist or other who is even more inaccessible to the same readers?

You beat the liver out of a goose to get a pâté; you pound the muscles of a man's cardia to get a philosopher.

With respect to the doctrine of a future life, a North American Indian knows just as much as any ancient or modern philosopher.

Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than this.

You're like a philosopher with tattoos.