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Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
- Rousseau, Jean Jacques
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Best Quotes about Philosophers and philosophy

1.
Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

2.
Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life.
Carnegie, Dale

3.
If you set your heart upon philosophy, you must straightway prepare yourself to be laughed at and mocked by many who will say Behold a philosopher arisen among us! or How came you by that brow of scorn? But do you cherish no scorn, but hold to those things which seem to you the best, as one set by God in that place. Remember too, that if you abide in those ways, those who first mocked you, the same shall afterwards reverence you; but if you yield to them, you will be laughed at twice as much as before.
Epictetus

4.
Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?
Diogenes of Sinope

5.
Plato was a bore.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

6.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full and scratch where it itches.
Longworth, Alice Roosevelt

7.
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
Diderot, Denis

8.
It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig

9.
Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
Rousseau, Jean Jacques

10.
Philosophy is the product of wonder.
Whitehead, Alfred North

11.
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

12.
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

13.
Many talk like philosophers yet live like fools.
Proverb

14.
Philosophers are only men in armor after all.
Dickens, Charles

15.
Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
Seneca

16.
Bad philosophers may have a certain influence; good philosophers, never.
Russell, Bertrand

17.
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

18.
Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.
Whitehead, Alfred North

19.
There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.
Descartes, Rene

20.
Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?
Pinter, Harold

21.
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

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

24.
If He Tom Sawyer had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
Twain, Mark

25.
Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
Camus, Albert

26.
I have tried too in my time to be a philosopher; but, I don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in.
Edwards, Oliver

27.
Reason, progress, unselfishness, a wide historical perspective, expansiveness, generosity, enlightened self-interest. I had heard it all my life, and it filled me with despair.
Tait, Katherine

28.
There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.
Maistre, Joseph De

29.
When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy.
Voltaire

30.
When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.
Lippmann, Walter

31.
In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.
Leary, Timothy

32.
If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.
Lichtenberg, Georg C.

33.
In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.
Murdoch, Iris

34.
Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.
Rohn, Jim

35.
Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.
Hegel, Georg

36.
The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.
Chesterton, Gilbert K.

37.
Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!
Murdoch, Iris

38.
The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.
Marx, Karl

39.
Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labor of its unfamiliar thought.
Yeats, William Butler

40.
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.
Feuerbach, Ludwig

41.
Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Zend, Robert

42.
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

43.
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

44.
Philosophy always requires something more, requires the eternal, the true, in contrast to which even the fullest existence as such is but a happy moment.
Kierkegaard, SĀ°ren

45.
Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it!
Roux, Joseph

46.
Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.
Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

47.
If he really thinks there is no distinction between vice and virtue, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.
Johnson, Samuel

48.
What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind.
Berkeley, George

49.
Philosophy is doubt.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

50.
Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?
Gauguin, Paul


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