Philosopher Quotes - page 4

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. (Kevin Warwick)
Two Chinamen visiting Europe went to the theatre for the first time. One of them occupied himself with trying to understand the theatrical machinery, which he succeeded in doing. The other, despite his ignorance of the language, sought to unravel the meaning of the play. The former is like the astronomer, the latter the philosopher. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
A philosopher is a man who can look at an empty glass with a smile. View quote
Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar
It is good to renew one's wonder, said the philosopher. Space travel has again made children of us all. View quote
Ray Bradbury
When Eudæmonidas heard a philosopher arguing that only a wise man can be a good general, "This is a wonderful speech," said he; "but he that saith it never heard the sound of trumpets." View quote
Plutarch
I mean it as a compliment when I say that you could almost define a philosopher as someone who won't take common sense for an answer. View quote
Richard Dawkins
The act of philosophizing involves the character of the philosopher. View quote
Jacques Maritain
A great philosopher in the wrong is like a beacon on the reefs which says to seamen: steer clear of me. View quote
Jacques Maritain
It is not as a very great philosopher, nor as an eloquent rhetorician, nor as a grammarian trained in the highest principles of his heart, that I have striven to write this work, but as an architect who has had only a dip into those studies. View quote
Vitruvius
A strange effect of marriage, such as the nineteenth century has made it! The boredom of married life inevitably destroys love, when love has preceded marriage. And yet, as a philosopher has observed, it speedily brings about, among people who are rich enough not to have to work, an intense boredom with all quiet forms of enjoyment. And it is only dried up hearts, among women, that it does not predispose to love. View quote
Stendhal
There are, of course, a number of epistemological questions, some of which lie more in the province of the philosopher than they do the economist or the social scientist. The one with which I am particularly concerned here is that of the role of knowledge in social systems, both as a product of the past and as a determinant of the future. (Kenneth Boulding)
Some great poet or philosopher once said that " he who goes to nature for comfort must go to her empty handed ", and I think he was right. View quote
Flora Thompson
I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the dull craft of experimental psychology. View quote
Oswald Spengler
A philosopher may try to prove the truth of something he believed before he was a philosopher, but even if he succeeds, his belief never regains the untroubled character, and the settled place in his mind, which it had at first. View quote
David Stove
I have always taken as the standard of the mode of teaching and writing, not the abstract, particular, professional philosopher, but universal man, that I have regarded man as the criterion of truth, and not this or that founder of a system, and have from the first placed the highest excellence of the philosopher in this, that he abstains, both as a man and as an author, from the ostentation of philosophy, i.e., that he is a philosopher only in reality, not formally, that he is a quiet philosopher, not a loud and still less a brawling one. View quote
Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach
A thirsty ambition for truth and virtue, and a frenzy to conquer all lies and vices which are not recognized as such nor desire to be; herein consists the heroic spirit of the philosopher. View quote
Johann Georg Hamann
Only as an individual can man become a philosopher. View quote
Karl Jaspers
The great man of science, unless he is also a philosopher, ... deserves the title of genius as little as the man of action. View quote
Otto Weininger
The late philosopher Morris R. Cohen of CCNY was asked by a student in the metaphysics course, "Professor Cohen, how do I know that I exist?” The keen old prof replied, "And who is asking?”. View quote
Saul Bellow
Cowardice was undoubtedly one of the most terrible vices - thus spoke Yeshua Ha-Nozri. 'No, philosopher, I disagree with you: it is the most terrible vice! View quote
Mikhail Bulgakov
The best physician is also a philosopher. (Galen)
No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist. View quote
Jorge Luis Borges
Has a philosopher like you failed to discover that our country is more to be valued and higher and holier far than mother or father or any ancestor, and more to be regarded in the eyes of the gods and of men of understanding? View quote
Socrates
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. View quote
Socrates
One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another. View quote
René Descartes