Philosopher Quotes

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. (Socrates)
There is nothing so absurd that it has not been said by some philosopher. View quote
Cicero
He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot. View quote
Douglas Adams
Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other. View quote
George Eliot
A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it. View quote
Laurence J. Peter
When life life does not find a singer to sing her heart, she produces a philosopher to speak her mind. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring. View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it. View quote
Cicero
One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one. View quote
Friedrich Schlegel
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all. (Bertrand Russell)
God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say 'This is my country.' View quote
Benjamin Franklin
A great memory does not make a philosopher, any more than a dictionary can be called grammar. View quote
John Henry Newman
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers. View quote
Denis Diderot
Every good mathematician is at least half a philosopher, and every good philosopher is at least half a mathematician. View quote
Gottlob Frege
No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder. View quote
Plato
To live alone one must be an animal or a god --says Aristotle. There is yet a third case one must be both --a philosopher. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him. View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
The great critic must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things. (W. Somerset Maugham)
If thou canst see sharp, look and judge wisely, says the philosopher. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful. View quote
Edward Gibbon
Shall I show you the sinews of a philosopher 'What sinews are those' A will undisappointed evils avoided powers daily exercised careful resolutions unerring decisions. View quote
Epictetus
A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty-and, by which definition, a philosopher-dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never quite sure that he was not a butterfly dreaming it was a Chinese philosopher. Envy him; in his two-fold security. View quote
Tom Stoppard