Quotes on Philosopher

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.

There is a beauty in discovery. There is mathematics in music, a kinship of science and poetry in the description of nature, and exquisite form in a molecule. Attempts to place different disciplines in different camps are revealed as artificial in the face of the unity of knowledge. All literate men are sustained by the philosopher, the historian, the political analyst, the economist, the scientist, the poet, the artisan and the musician.

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?

Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion.

The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.

...I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

Philosophers have long conceded, however, that every man has two educators: 'that which is given to him, and the other that which he gives himself. Of the two kinds the latter is by far the more desirable. Indeed all that is most worthy in man he must work out and conquer for himself. It is that which constitutes our real and best nourishment. What we are merely taught seldom nourishes the mind like that which we teach ourselves.

In the words of the philosopher Sceptum, the founder of my profession: am I going to get paid for this?

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it.

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

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

Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.

There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.

Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

MONAD, n. The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter (see Molecule). The monad has body without bulk, and mind without manifestation - containing all the powers and possibilities needful to his evolution into a German philosopher . .

The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

When we face problems with compassion, sincerity, and good motivation, our solutions may take longer, but ultimately they are better.

It may be argued that peoples for whom philosophers legislate are always prosperous.