Philosopher Quotes - Page 13

A married philosopher belongs to comedy.

A married philosopher is a comic character.

All that philosophers have handled for millennia has been conceptual mummies; nothing actual has ever escaped from their hands alive.

When you want to hear a philosopher, do not say, 'You say nothing to me'; only show yourself worthy or fit to hear, and then you will see how you will move the speaker.

It's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.

Philosophers are divided on the question of whether the narrative therein unfolded [the Crossman Diaries] is grippingly boring or boringly gripping.

My doctor said to me afterwards, 'When you were ill you behaved like a true philosopher. Every time you came to yourself you made a joke.' I never had a compliment that pleased me more.

Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.

It is now no mystery that some quite influential 'philosophers' were 'mentally' ill.

I leaf through the ancient philosophers and find my newest discoveries there.

When I was 16 I started keeping a diary in which I recorded my disagreements with the famous philosophers. I didn't insist that they were wrong, that I was right and I had to prevail. I just agreed and disagreed with them. I thought there was a high degree of probability that I was right and some other thinkers were wrong. But I wasn't positive about it.

Philosophers, for example, often fail to recognize that their remarks about the universe apply also to themselves and their remarks. If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so.

Thou best philosopher, who yet dost keep/ Thy heritage, thou eye among the blind.

The unambitious sluggard pretends that the eminence is not worth attaining, declines altogether the struggle, and calls himself a philosopher. I say he is a poor-spirited coward.

It is not probable that the reader will be satisfied with any of these solutions, and contemporary philosophers, even rationalistically minded ones, have on the whole agreed that no one has intelligibly banished the mystery of fact.

Philosophy abounds more than philosophers, and learning more than learned men.

A true philosopher is beyond the reach of fortune.

But of all nations in the world the English are perhaps the least a nation of pure philosophers.

For other great mathematicians or philosophers, he [Gauss] used the epithets magnus, or clarus, or clarissimus; for Newton alone he kept the prefix summus.

The great critic … must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things.

All the persecutors declare against each other mortal war, while the philosopher, oppressed by them all, contents himself with pitying them.

Without at all invalidating what we have just said, we believe that a perpetual remembrance of the tomb is proper for the living. On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.

To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time.

Being a professional philosopher is, I would say, feeling natural to think about small and great problems. It is the only pleasure.

I'm not a philosopher.