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Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?
- Diogenes of Sinope
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Best Quotes about Philosophers and philosophy

1.
To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.
James, William

2.
There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.
Descartes, Rene

3.
Then, like an old-time orator impressively he rose; I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.
Teasdale, Sara

4.
And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it.
Donne, John

5.
When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.
Lippmann, Walter

6.
The ultimate triumph of philosophy would be to cast light upon the mysterious ways in which Providence moves to achieve the designs it has for man.
Sade, Marquis De

7.
In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.
Murdoch, Iris

8.
Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737.
Smith, Sydney

9.
While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work [Plato's Republic], I laid it down often to ask myself how it could have been that the world should have so long consented to give reputation to such nonsense as this?
Jefferson, Thomas

10.
Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them.
Plato

11.
Look, I really don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive, you got to flap your arms and legs, you got to jump around a lot, you got to make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death. And therefore, as I see it, if you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy, or at least your thoughts should be noisy and colorful and lively.
Brooks, Mel

12.
There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fontenelle says he would undertake to persuade the whole public of readers to believe that the sun was neither the cause of light or heat, if he could only get six philosophers on his side.
Goldsmith, Oliver

13.
Philosophy is doubt.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

14.
The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the insoluble problems in all their insolubility and then in simply contemplating them, fixedly and tirelessly, year after year, without any hope, patiently waiting.
Weil, Simone

15.
Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it!
Roux, Joseph

16.
If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.
Lichtenberg, Georg C.

17.
Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.
One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
Burroughs, John

19.
Philosophy is the product of wonder.
Whitehead, Alfred North

20.
Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?
Gauguin, Paul

21.
Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig

22.
The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. -- The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig

23.
Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory -- the world? Then we pygmies must be content to have out paper allegories but ill comprehended.
Melville, Herman

24.
The philosopher believes that the value of his philosophy lies in the whole, in the building: posterity discovers it in the bricks with which he built and which are then often used again for better building: in the fact, that is to say, that building can be destroyed and nonetheless possess value as material.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

25.
All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?
Kant, Immanuel

26.
A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig

27.
The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to debase him by showing his miseries.
Pascal, Blaise

28.
There is no record in history of a happy philosopher.
Mencken, H. L.

29.
The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be n hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.
Shaw, George Bernard

30.
As an example of just how useless these philosophers are for any practice in life there is Socrates himself, the one and only wise man, according to the Delphic Oracle. Whenever he tried to do anything in public he had to break off amid general laughter. While he was philosophizing about clouds and ideas, measuring a flea's foot and marveling at a midge's humming, he learned nothing about the affairs of ordinary life.
Erasmus, Desiderius

31.
There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.
Cicero, Marcus T.

32.
The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.
Marx, Karl

33.
Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

34.
Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.
Aquinas, St. Thomas

35.
What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind.
Berkeley, George

36.
To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.
Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

37.
The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study.
Hegel, Georg

38.
Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say thus it shall be!, it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of mankind, and they possess for this task the preliminary work of all the philosophical laborers, of all those who have subdued the past -- they reach for the future with creative hand, and everything that is or has been becomes for them a means, an instrument, a hammer. Their knowing is creating, their creating is a law giving, their will to truth is -- will to power. Are their such philosophers today? Have there been such philosophers? Must there not be such philosophers?
Nietzsche, Friedrich

39.
If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers.
Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

40.
Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.
Brookner, Anita

41.
Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life.
Carnegie, Dale

42.
The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatures are the willing playthings; he is less duped than his neighbor by his own nature. He judges more sanely, he sees things as they are. It is in this that his liberty consists -- in the ability to see clearly and soberly, in the power of mental record.
Amiel, Henri Frederic

43.
Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.
Rohn, Jim

44.
In it he proves that all things are true and states how the truths of all contradictions may be reconciled physically, such as for example that white is black and black is white; that one can be and not be at the same time; that there can be hills without valleys; that nothingness is something and that everything, which is, is not. But take note that he proves all these unheard-of paradoxes without any fallacious or sophistical reasoning.
Bergerac, Savinien Cyrano De

45.
If he really thinks there is no distinction between vice and virtue, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.
Johnson, Samuel

46.
The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.
Chesterton, Gilbert K.

47.
Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.
Stevens, Wallace

48.
Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?
Diogenes of Sinope

49.
The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.
Reade, W. Winwood

50.
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
Diderot, Denis


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