I like both slapstick and contradiction. Like philosophers.

I don't see myself as a philosopher. That's awfully boring.

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

I'm not a philosopher, I'm just a simple boy from East Ham.

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

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

As a doctor I had no choice. As a philosopher I had too many.

I see the beard and cloak, but I don't yet see a philosopher.

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

Independence is the outstanding characteristic of the runner.

On my bad days, I sometimes wonder what philosophers are for.

There are more riddles in a stone than in a philosopher's head

Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.

Divers philosophers hold that the lips is parcel of the mouth.

There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.

These are fashionable people who call themselves philosophers.

The whole life of a philosopher is the meditation of his death.

No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.

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

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.

I used to think that I was stupid, and then I met philosophers.

There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers

The heart hid still in the dark, hard as the Philosopher's Stone.

There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.

Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?

All real philosophers have been artists in the realm of concepts.

On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.

A true philosopher is married to wisdom; he needs no other bride.

I hold firmly to my original views. After all I am a philosopher.

What shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the chameleon poet.

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

Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers.

To a philosopher no circumstance, however trifling, is too minute.

A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.'

This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time.

Poets are the sense, philosophers­­ the intelligence­­ of humanity.

A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.'

Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease.

The act of philosophizing involves the character of the philosopher.

The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study.

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

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

The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.

Jesus Christ is infinitely more than a great teacher and philosopher.

Before researchers become researches they should become philosophers.

Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.

As a philosopher, I'm not obliged to explore every unknown wilderness.

Philosophers are as jealous as women; each wants a monopoly of praise.

The philosopher is someone who doesn't know, but who wants to find out.

Who are the true philosophers? Those whose passion is to love the truth.

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