Philosopher Quotes - Page 3

The philosopher creates, he doesn't reflect.

Constant happiness is the philosopher's stone of the soul.

Philosopher: A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.

As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but as long as there have been philosophers and they have thought, most of them have tried to mask it.

Experiences are the chemicals of life with which the philosopher experiments

A philosopher will not believe what he sees because he is too busy speculating about what he does not see.

Kings and philosophers defecate, and so do ladies.

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.

The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful.

I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.

Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age.

Although according to certain philosophers it is quite difficult to distinguish the jester from the melancholic, life itself being a comic drama or a dramatic comedy.

There is no such thing as a language, not if a language is anything like what many philosophers and linguists have supposed. Thereis therefore no such thing to be learned, mastered, or born with. We must give up the idea of a clearly defined shared structure which language-users acquire and then apply to cases.

Legislators, priests, philosophers, writers, ans scientists have striven to show that the subordinate position of woman is willed in heaven and advantageous on earth.

All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher!

Everyone is a philosopher. Not everyone is good at it.

whoever is so stupid as to imagine God to be either masculine or feminine openly shows that he is as bad a philosopher as a theologian.

For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd.

love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity.

This sense of wonder is the mark of the philosopher. Philosophy indeed has no other origin.

The late philosopher Morris R. Cohen of CCNY was asked by a student in the metaphysics course, Professor Cohen, how do I know that I exist? The keen old prof replied, And who is asking?

The world's philosophers and theologians searched for answers to the same mysteries.

According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat

Before researchers become researches they should become philosophers.