Philosopher Quotes - Page 16

The British philosopher Bertrand Russell said that philosophy went downhill after Democritus and did not recover until the Renaissance.

Philosophy has a fine saying for everything.-For Death it has an entire set.

For us scientists, on the other wing, life is not quite so simple. Because we learn the unknown. Unlike, hah-hah, our esteemed friends the philosophers, who learn the unknowable.

The world is solely occupied by a questioner and a philosopher.

I'm a slumdog philosopher.

God is a questioner; Man is a philosopher.

I'm the only man; I'm the only philosopher.

Man's greatest battle is being a true philosopher.

If your divines are not philosophers, your philosophy will neither be divine, nor able to divine.

Since at least the Middle Ages, philosophers and philologists have dreamed of curing natural languages of their flaws by constructing entirely new idioms according to orderly, logical principles.

The highest philosophers, in explaining the mystery of this world, are obliged to call in the aid of another.

I don't really know what that job [experimental philosopher] entails.

I call myself an experimental philosopher which is as ambiguous a term as comprehensive anticipatory design scientist.

The philosopher Elaine Scarry has observed that "beauty always takes place in the particular." Cruelty, on the other hand, prefers abstraction.

Philosophy recovers itself when it ceases to be a device for dealing with the problems of philosophers and becomes a method, cultivated by philosophers, for dealing with the problems of men.

Dostoevsky is such a bad writer it is hard to take him seriously as a novelist, though he is a wonderful philosopher.

The philosophers must station themselves in the middle.

What must the English and French think of the language of our philosophers when we Germans do not understand it ourselves?

When we meet with better fare than was expected, the disappointment is overlooked even by the unscrupulous. When we meet with worse than was expected, philosophers alone know how to make it better.

One of the reasons why architects are often attracted to philosophers, partially, has to do with making sense of the world around us as well as the making of worlds.

Decades ago, Gerhard Richter found a painterly philosopher's stone. Like Jackson Pollock before him, he discovered something that had been in painting all along, always overlooked or discounted.

I like both slapstick and contradiction. Like philosophers.

If Socrates died like a philosopher, Jesus Christ died like a God.

[W]here other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.

A great philosopher in the wrong is like a beacon on the reefs which says to seamen: steer clear of me.