Philosopher Quotes - Page 15

Since the time of Plato and Aristotle philosophers have had an interest in taking note of common fallacies in reasoning.

Herbert Spencer is little read now. Philosophers do not regard him as a major thinker. Social Darwinism has long been in disrepute.

But Adam Smith was a philosopher as well as well as an economist, famous in his time as much for his Theory of Moral Sentiments as for The Wealth of Nations. And as he understood so well, society is more than the sum of its individual parts.

The neuroscience of consciousness is not going to stop in its tracks because some philosophers guesses that project cannot be productive.

Anytime you see a Hungarian, kick him. He'll know why. Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.

Sometimes I suspect that there are two prototypes of philosophers who write about humans - I call them "celestials" and "terrestrials", without implying that celestials have their heads in the clouds or that terrestrials have theirs buried in the ground. The difference between these two types is not so much in their theories but in whether or not they would find it a very sad thing if it turned out that the only way a human is superior to a wolf is this: the human brain is significantly more capacious and complex.

These are fashionable people who call themselves philosophers.

The ancient Greeks, poets, authors and philosophers all puzzled over the question but nobody really knows what love is - including me. Longing for another person is an exciting mental experience.

It's usually best not to ask philosophers anything, precisely because they have the habit of what in the Persian language is called sanud: the profitless consideration of unsettling yet inconsequential things.

Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians.

The French have never produced a great philosopher. Great wine maybe, but no great philosophers.

In PLATO AT THE GOOGLEPLEX, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein set out to showcase, in sometimes startling ways, the continuing relevance of a classic philosopher. But what's remarkable is that she actually brings off this tour de force with both madcap brilliance and commanding authority.

Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.

We are apt to consider Shakespeare only as a poet; but he was certainly one of the greatest moral philosophers that ever lived.

The Holy Scriptures surpass in efficaciousness all the arts and all the sciences of the philosophers and jurists; these, though good and necessary to life here below, are vain and of no effect as to what concerns the life eternal.

A poet is not somebody who has great thoughts. That is the menial duty of the philosopher. A poet is somebody who expresses his thoughts, however commonplace they may be, exquisitely. That is the one and only difference between the poet and everybody else.

The visible world was only an imperfect reflection of the Ideal, which the Philosopher sought to transcend.

How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising glory.

Sed nescio quo modo nihil tam absurde dici potest quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosphorum. (There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.)

Nothing is too absurd to be said by some of the philosophers.

As a philosopher, I have a right to ask for a rational explanation of religious faith.

If thou canst see sharp, look and judge wisely, says the philosopher.

Women make us poets, children make us philosophers.

There is not a philosophical method, though there are indeed methods, like different therapies.

It's only by thinking even more crazily than philosophers do that you can solve their problems.